AWS For Admins For Dummies

Chapter 13

Isolating Cloud Resources Using Virtual Private Cloud

IN THIS CHAPTER

Defining the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) feature set

Working with the Amazon-supplied VPC

Configuring a custom VPC

Understanding the concept of a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) can be daunting. Of course, you don’t need to know the innermost details about how a VPC works to use one, but it helps to understand what it can do for you in order to understand how you can better use it effectively. The first section of this chapter examines what the Amazon VPC provides in the way of features. In addition, it helps you get past some of the hype to understand what it’s really offering you in terms of useful functionality. You can try to define where you can use the Amazon VPC in your organization and where you might want to avoid it.

In many cases, an experimenter can ignore the VPC completely. In fact, a small business may not need to pay much attention to it, either. However, after your organization starts to get to a certain size, you can’t really ignore the VPC any longer because you need to configure it to interact with your setup in the correct manner. This means performing some basic configuration tasks, ...