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The anatomy of an Amazon VPC

The anatomy of an Amazon VPC - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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The anatomy of an Amazon VPC

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- [Instructor] In this lecture, we will learn the anatomy of an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud. A human body is made up of varying parts and different systems. It has a skeletal system that provides an internal framework of the human body, a digestive system for the intake of food and excretion of waste, and a nervous system to control other bodily systems. In the same way, an Amazon VPC also has various interconnected components that allow it to do many functions. It has an internal framework that is composed of a route table, several subnets, and a CIDR block, a collection of gateways that allow incoming traffic to go in and return the outgoing traffic, and a management system that enables the control, connection, and integration to other VPCs or AWS resources. Amazon VPC is a logical private network within the AWS Cloud that allows you to launch different AWS resources, such as EC2 instances, RDS databases,…

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