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Amazon VPC overview

Amazon VPC overview - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Amazon VPC overview

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- [Instructor] The Amazon VPC is a virtual network in a sense that these geographically distributed servers are virtually connected to each other to form a single network. This network is regional in scope, meaning your VPC can only exist within one AWS region. This virtual network works like a traditional network on your on-premises data center. It also has a CIDR block, a main route table, multiple subnets, and other external network connections. But unlike your traditional on-premises network, and Amazon VPC can leverage on the scalable global infrastructure of AWS at a fraction of the cost. A VPC is not just limited within a single data center. It can span to multiple data centers and availability zones within an AWS region. A virtual network can be subdivided by two or more subnetworks, or subnets for short. In AWS, a subnet must reside entirely within one availability zone only. One subnet cannot span to two or more…

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