Chapter 4
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
THE AWS CERTIFIED SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE EXAM OBJECTIVES COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER MAY INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING:
- Domain 1: Design Resilient Architectures
- ✓ 1.3 Determine how to design a multitier architecture solution.
- Domain 3: Specify Secure Applications and Architectures
- ✓ 3.1 Determine how to secure application tiers.
- ✓ 3.3 Define the networking infrastructure for a single VPC application.
Introduction
Amazon’s Virtual Private Cloud service provides the networking layer of EC2. A VPC is a virtual network that can contain EC2 instances as well as network resources for other AWS services. By default, every VPC is isolated from all other networks. You can, however, connect your VPC to other networks, including the Internet and other VPCs.
In addition to EC2, VPCs are foundational to many AWS services, so understanding how they work is fundamental to your success on the exam and as an...