VPC & Subnets
Software Engineer path · lesson 68 of 99Animate traffic flowing through an Internet Gateway into Public and Private subnets within a Virtual Private Cloud.
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Public or private subnet?
Sort each resource or rule into the subnet it belongs to.
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Public subnet
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What allows resources within a Public Subnet to communicate with the outside internet?
The short version
A VPC is like an office building. The Internet Gateway is the front door. The Public Subnet is the reception area where anyone can walk in. The Private Subnet is the back office where only employees who passed reception can enter.
In more depth
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
A VPC lets you provision a logically isolated section of the cloud where you can launch resources in a virtual network that you define.
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