July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
402 pages
9h 38m
English
When using AWS, you can imagine your infrastructure as being contained in your own virtual data center. This is called a VPC. Each VPC is then subdivided into multiple subnets. So far, we have used the default VPC and subnets. Take the example of us-east-1. As we can see in the following image, our default VPC is using the 173.31.0.0/16 network. Within this network, we have a subnet for each availability zone.
In addition, each AZ is directly connected to an internet gateway:

This gateway is what makes it possible for our EC2 instances to have both a public and private IP. This is also what we ...
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