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Designing AWS Environments [Video]

By : Wayde Gilchrist
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Designing AWS Environments [Video]

By: Wayde Gilchrist

Overview of this book

<p>Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides trusted, cloud-based solutions to help you meet your business needs. Running your solutions in the AWS Cloud can help you get your applications up and running faster while providing the security to meet your compliance requirements.&nbsp;</p> <p>This course begins by familiarizing you with the key capabilities to architect and host applications, websites, and services on AWS. We’ll explain the available options for virtual instances and demonstrate launching and connecting to them. Using practical examples, you will be able design and deploy networking and hosting solutions for large deployments. Finally, the course focuses on security and important elements of scalability and high availability.</p> <h1>Style and Approach</h1> <p>This course follows a step-by-step practical approach that shows you how to design robust large infrastructures using AWS. You will be able to make trade-offs in your decision-making and keep the implications and intricacies of cloud design in mind. It follows a unique approach that also pushes your confidence to the next level.</p>
Table of Contents (5 chapters)
Chapter 5
Creating a VPC
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Section 3
Connecting to a VPC
Once we have a VPC and some private or public instances, we need to be able to securely to connect those instances from outside the VPC. This requires attaching one or more gateways and establishing a secure connection between our data center. - A gateway attachment provides communication with a VPC over the Internet, or private connection - Direct Connect provides a dedicated connection from a data center to a VPC - VPC peering allows instances in two VPCs to communicate