Guided Notes
VPC Networking
Virtual private clouds, subnets, gateways, security groups vs network ACLs, and Route 53.
Amazon VPC
Slide 1 / 5An Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is your own isolated network inside AWS. You choose its IP address range (for example 10.0.0.0/16) and decide exactly what can reach your resources.
Within a VPC you create subnets β smaller sections of the address range, each in one Availability Zone:
β’ Public subnets β for resources the internet must reach, like a load balancer. β’ Private subnets β for resources that must stay hidden, like databases.
