Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) is one of the most used service provided by AWS, that allows users to create a virtual network environment in the cloud. With Amazon VPC, users can define their own virtual network topology, including IP address ranges, subnets, route tables, and network gateways.
Amazon VPC explained in simple words.
Today’s focus is Amazon Virtual Private Cloud or VPC. Running applications on AWS? You need VPC.
Imagine you’re the president of your school district. You are building an elementary school that’s divided into several classrooms. Each classroom serves a different purpose, like kindergarten classroom, 1st Grade classrom, 2nd, library, teachers break room, etc.
Now, think of each classroom as a part of your computer network, and the school as the cloud. Each classroom or office is separated from the other space by walls and hallways. And this is how AWS VPC works.
It’s like having boundaries to create your own private space within the school. As the president of the ISD, you’re responsible for overseeing the entire school district, just as AWS VPC allows users to manage their virtual networking environment within the AWS cloud.
Amazon VPC gives you full control over your virtual networking environment, including resource placement, connectivity, and security. It’s a way to isolate and control your own virtual network environment within the vast AWS cloud infrastructure.
Benefits of VPC simplified for you
1️⃣ Manage and Control your own environment:
With VPC, you have control over who can enter your virtual school. You can set rules such as “no firearms allowed in the school” (called security groups and network access control lists) to allow or deny access to different parts of your network.
2️⃣ Separate Networks
It’s like having different classrooms in your school serving different purposes or grade levels, you can create different subnetworks within your VPC for different applications or departments. These subnetworks can communicate with each other as needed, just like classrooms in a school connected by hallways.
3️⃣ Security
It’s like having locks on your doors and windows at school so that the kids inside are safe. AWS VPC provides security features to protect your virtual school from unauthorized access and cyber threats.
Have you used VPC? What are the pros and cons? How does your company implement VPC in their environment?
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