AWS-Module 4: Networking Flashcards
What is Amazon virtual private cloud (VPC)
A 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
The public and private grouping of resources are known as ________ and they are ranges of IP addresses in your VPC.
subnets
What are subnets?
Subnets are chunks of IP addresses in your VPC that allow you to group resources together
(is a section of a VPC that can contain resources such as Amazon EC2 instances)
_________ and networking rule control whether resources are publicly or privately available
Subnets
Subnets are divided into what two types?
Public and private subnets
What is a public subnet?
Contain resources that need to be accessible by the public, such as an online store’s website.
What is a private subnet?
contain resources that should be accessible only through your private network, such as a database that contains customers’ personal information and order histories
In a _____, subnets can communicate with each other (regardless if it private or public)
VPC
In order to allow traffic from the public internet to flow into and out of your VPC, you must attach what is called an ______________, to your VPC.
internet gateway, or IGW (An internet gateway is like a doorway that is open to the public.)
When dealing with internal private resources that you want private & only certain people to use then you need a virtual private gateway, and it allows you to create a ________ connection between a private network, like your on-premises data center or internal corporate network to your VPC.
VPN
What is AWS direct connect
is a service that lets you to establish a dedicated private connection between your data center and a VPC.
The public subnets have access to the internet gateway; the private subnets do not & vice versa
What is a packet?
is a unit of data sent over the internet or a network
_________ are messages from the internet, and every _______ that crosses the subnet boundaries gets checked against something called a network access control list or network ACL.
Packets
_________ only gets to evaluate a packet if it crosses a subnet boundary, in or out (It doesn’t evaluate if a packet can reach a specific EC2 instance or not)
network ACL
___________ have their own security groups and by default their security group doesn’t allow any traffic into the instance at all, all ports are blocked, & all IP addresses sending packets are blocked
EC2 Instances
You can modify the instance security to accept certain types of traffic in or out