AWS Fundamentals Flashcards
Public Service
“Public internet zone”
Access to PUBLIC AWS using INTERNET as transit
Private service
“AWS Private” Zone
VPCs are isolated unless configured otherwise
AWS Regions - Geographic Separation
Isolated Fault Domain
AWS Regions - Geopolitical Separation
Different governance
AWS Regions - Location control
Performance
Service Resilience
Globally resilient
Region resilient
AZ resilient
VPC basics
A VPC = virtual network inside AWS
VPC is w/in 1 account & 1 region
Private & Isolated unless you decide otherwise
Two types; default VPC & custom VPCs
Default VPC Facts
1 per region - can be removed & recreated
Default VPC cidr is always 172.31.0.0/16
/20 subnet in each AZ in the region
Internet gateway (IGW), Security group (SG) & NACL
Subnets assign public IPv4 addresses