September 2018
Beginner to intermediate
174 pages
3h 27m
English
An internet gateway is a service managed by AWS that connects the internet to your VPC. It is highly available, and scales to meet your traffic requirements:

For an instance to be directly reachable from the internet, it needs to have a public or elastic IP, and it needs to be launched in a subnet that has a route to the internet, through the internet gateway. You may be surprised to learn that many AWS managed services, such as DynamoDB, Kinesis, SQS, and SNS, are not reachable from private subnets in your VPC. Only instances in a public subnet, with public or elastic IPs, can reach these services, because communication with ...
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