Networking Flashcards
What is an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
A networking service that you can use to establish boundaries around your AWS resources
What is a Subnet
a section of a VPC that can contain resources such as Amazon EC2 instances.
**Public or Private
How do you allow public traffic from the internet to access your VPC
attach an internet gateway to the VPC
What is a Virtual Private Gateway
component that allows protected internet traffic to enter into the VPC.
What is AWS Direct Connect
a service that lets you to establish a dedicated private connection between your data center and a VPC
What are Public subnets
resources that need to be accessible by the public, such as an online store’s website.
What are Private subnets
resources that should be accessible only through your private network, such as a database that contains customers’ personal information and order histories.
What is a Packet
a unit of data sent over the internet or a network
What is a Network Access Control List
a virtual firewall that controls inbound and outbound traffic at the subnet level
By default, your account’s default network ACL allows
Allows all inbound and outbound traffic
For custom network ACLs, all inbound and outbound traffic is
denied until you add rules to specify which traffic to allow.
all network ACLs have an explicit rule to allow or deny traffic?
explicit deny rule. This rule ensures that if a packet doesn’t match any of the other rules on the list, the packet is denied.
Network ACLs perform what type of packet filtering
Stateless Packet Filterning
What is Stateless Packet Filtering
They remember nothing and check packets that cross the subnet border each way: inbound and outbound
What is a Security Group
a virtual firewall that controls inbound and outbound traffic for an Amazon EC2 instance.
