Amazon Web Services (Web) has a huge global infrastructure, with millions of resources used by customers all over the world. As you’re building and deploying your own applications, how do you ensure that your resources are isolated from everything else out there?
An Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is effectively your own private network within AWS. This is what separates your resources from everything else. In this video, I’ll provide an overview of networking basics in AWS (VPC, subnets, internet gateway), dig into some detail about CIDR notation and how IP addressing works within a VPC, and wrap up with a brief discussion of network access control lists (ACLs) and security groups.
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You might also be interested in this video about how to create a VPC and subnets using the AWS Console: https://youtu.be/HbTfONoekyM
00:00 – Overviewing the need for a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
01:54 – What does networking in AWS have to do with a parking lot?
02:02 – Basic AWS networking concepts: VPC, public and private subnets, routes, internet gateway
03:18 – VPCs in relation to regions and availability zones
04:37 – Basics of CIDR notation and IP addresses
07:43 – Internet Gateway and NAT Gateway
08:39 – Network Access Control Lists (ACLs) and Security Groups