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Virtual private cloud (VPC) overview

Virtual private cloud (VPC) overview

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Virtual private cloud (VPC) overview

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(gentle music) - Hi guys. In this lesson, I'm going to teach you about the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud or VPC. Now, obviously you've already been using VPC quite a bit in this course, and that's where you've launched EC2 instances and you choose a VPC to put them into, and then within the VPC, you choose a subnet, or sometimes we just allow it to auto assign both. VPC incorporates several different concepts. And what we're going to do in this section is go into them in much more detail. So first, we'll start off with the core knowledge around VPC itself. So within a region, we have our VPCs, and they are always within a region, they can't span across regions. A VPC is essentially a logically isolated portion of the AWS cloud that you can then use to deploy your resources inside it. And that's different to the public space outside of the VPC where services like Amazon S3 sit. This is a private space and you have full control over how you configure your VPC. Now, as you know, within a…

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