Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) lets
you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can
launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define. You have complete
control over your virtual networking environment, including selection of your
own IP address range, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables
and network gateways. You can use both IPv4 and IPv6 in your VPC for secure and
easy access to resources and applications.
You can easily customize the network
configuration for your VPC. For example, you can create a public-facing subnet
for your web servers that has access to the Internet, and place your backend
systems, such as databases or application servers, in a private-facing subnet
with no Internet access. You can leverage multiple layers of security
(including security groups and network access control lists) to help control access
to EC2 instances in each subnet.
Additionally, you can create a hardware virtual private network (VPN) connection between your corporate data center and your VPC and leverage the AWS Cloud as an extension of your corporate data center.
VPC
Components
- Subnets
- segment of
an VPC’s IP address range to launch EC2 instances, Amazon RDS databases,
and other AWS resources.
- smallest
subnet is a /28 (or 16 IP addresses).
- AWS
reserves first four IP addresses and the last IP address of every subnet
for internal networking purposes.
- Route tables
- A logical
construct within VPC having set of rules (or routes) applied to subnet
and used to determine where network traffic is directed.
- With route
table EC2 instances in different subnets in a VPC to communicate with
each other.
- Route table
has default route called local route, to communication within Amazon VPC,
and this route cannot be modified or removed.
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
option sets –
- DHCP passes
configuration information to hosts on a TCP/IP network like domain name,
domain name server, and the netbios-node-type.
- AWS
automatically creates and associates a DHCP option set for the Amazon VPC
upon creation and sets two options:
- domain-name-servers
(defaulted to AmazonProvidedDNS)
- domain-name
(defaulted to the domain name for your region).
- AmazonProvidedDNS
is an Amazon Domain Name System (DNS) server, and this option enables DNS
for instances that need to communicate over the Amazon VPC’s IGW.
- Security groups
- A virtual statefull firewall
controlling inbound and outbound network traffic to AWS resources and EC2
instances.
- All Amazon
EC2 instances must be launched into a security group.
- If not
specified at launch, then instance will be in default security group for
VPC, which allows communication between all resources within security
group, allows all outbound traffic, and denies all other traffic.
- Network Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- Acts as stateless firewall
on a subnet level.
- A numbered
list of rules that AWS evaluates in order, starting with lowest numbered
rule, to determine whether traffic is allowed in or out of any subnet
associated with the network ACL.
- Amazon VPCs
have modifiable default network ACL associated with every subnet that
allows all inbound and outbound traffic.
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