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VPC and subnets

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- [Instructor] Now let's talk about an interesting topic, VPCs and subnets. A VPC, also known as a virtual private cloud, is a virtual, logically isolated network of your AWS account. Essentially, it is an IP address range in your AWS account. Within a VPC, you can have subnets. A subnet is a range of IP addresses in your VPC, so simply put, both VPCs and subnets are IP address ranges. A VPC is a larger IP address range and a subnet is a smaller IP address range in your VPC. We use a similar concept in traditional on-premises networks. We use IP address ranges to logically isolate different segments of the network such as departments. The same concept applies in the AWS cloud. In the AWS cloud, we have different regions, and within a region we can have a VPC, and a VPC is simply an IP address range. Within a region you can also have multiple VPCs. For example, in this region, we have two VPCs. VPC A has the IP…

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