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AWS for System Administrators
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AWS for System Administrators

by Prashant Lakhera
February 2021
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
388 pages
6h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 3: Creating a Data Center in the Cloud Using VPC

In the previous chapter, you learned how to tighten security with the help of IAM policies and how to use IAM roles to assign temporary credentials to role sessions so that you no longer need to embed them inside your application. IAM provides security at the authentication level, that is, who is allowed or denied, and the authorization level is what that authenticated user or role is allowed to do. In the next level of defense, we need to secure our network so that only the users from the trusted network can access our service, and that is where VPC comes into the picture.

AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is your data center in the cloud. In VPC, you can define your own private network, ...

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