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Virtual Private Cloud Basics Flashcards

1
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What is the minimum size of a VPC

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/28 = 16 IPs

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What is the maximum size of a VPC

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/16 = 65356 IPs

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3
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What do services use with regards to VPCs

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Subnets, not VPCs

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4
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Should you use Bastion hosts

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No, they are frowned upon

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5
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What type of service is VPC

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Regional

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6
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Can data move in and out of VPC

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Only with explicit config, otherwise no

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7
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How many subnets does the default VPC have

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One per AZ

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What is a dedicated tenancy

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Uses dedicated hardware

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9
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What happens if you pick dedicated at VPC level

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All ressources in VPC must be on dedicated hardware

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What happens if you enabble DNS hostnames

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Instances with public IPs have DNS names

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11
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What happens if you enable DNS support

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Enables DNS resolution in VPC

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What is the address of the DNS in a VPC

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Base + 2 (e.g. if VPC is 10.0.0.0, it would be 10.0.0.2)

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13
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What is the nuber-to-number relationship between subnets and AZs

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Subnet only has one AZ
AZ has 0 or more subnets

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14
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Can subnets overlap

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No

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15
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How many IPs in every subnet is reserved

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5

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16
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What is the first address in a subnet

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The network address, it cannot be used

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17
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What is the second address in a subnet

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Network + 1 - VPC router, it moves data between subnets and in and out of VPC if configured to allow it

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18
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What is the third address in a subnet

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Network + 2 - Reserved for DNS. Technivally, it<s the 2nd adress ovf VPC and not subnet which is used, but this address is reserved in every subnet

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What is the 4th address in a subnet

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Network + 3 - Reserved for future use

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20
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What is the last address in a subnet

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It is the network broadcast address, it is reserved even if broadcast is not supported in VPCs

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21
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What does DHCP stand for

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Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

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22
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What is DHCP

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It is how computing devices receive IPs automatically

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23
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What has a route table

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Each subnet, and the VPC, the VPC route table is used as default

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24
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What is the number relationship between route tables and subnets

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Each subnet has one route table, each route table can be associated with many subnets

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What are the options for route tables of a subnet

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Either the main VPC one, ort a custom one

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To what data does a route table apply

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To the data leaving the subnet

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27
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Can local routes in a route tbale be edited

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No, they are always there and uneditable

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28
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How do you know if something is a local route

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It matches the VPC IPv$ or 6 CIDR range

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29
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How does a route table handle priorities

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More specific (higher prefix value) = priority

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30
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When is the default route used

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When nothing else matches

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31
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What resiliency does an Internet Gateway have

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Regional

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32
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What is the number relationship between an internet gateway and a VPC

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One to one

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33
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Where does an internet gateway run

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From the AWS public zone

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34
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What does an internet gateway do

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It is a gateway for traffic between the vpc and the internet or aws public zone

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35
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What type of service is an internet gateway

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AWS-managed - AWS handles the performance

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36
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What are the steps to configure an internet gateway

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1 : Create IG
2 : Attach IG to VPC (will make it available to route table)
3 : Create a custom route table
4 : Associate the route table to the dubnet
5 : Make the default route the IGW
6 : Configure the subnet to allocation public IPv4
Then the subnet is a public sbnet

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37
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What kind of record does an internet gateway keep

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A record linking a public and private IP (in IPv4 only)

38
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What IP does an EC2 instance see

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Only its private IPv4 IP

39
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Is the OS on an EC2 instance ever aware of its public IPv4 address

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No

40
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Is the OS on an EC2 instance ever aware of its public IPv6 address

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Yes, since it is the same as the private one, all IPv6 address are publicly routable by default, the internet gateway does not need to do translation

41
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What is a Bastion Host / Jumpbox

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An instance in a public subnet, to which incoming management connections are made, and can then access internal VPC ressources. Often the only way into a VPC (historically, now there are other ways)

42
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What does TCP stand for

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Transport Control Protocol

43
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How many parts does a connection have

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2 : request and response

44
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What is a stateless firewall

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It is a firewall that sees a request and response as 2 individual parts

45
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What do you need to do about ephemeral ports when using a stateless firewall

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Often have to open the full range, which is not great

46
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What is an advantage of stateful firewall

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Less admin overhead, no need to allow ephemeral port range

47
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What does NACL stand for

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Network Access Control List

48
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What is a NACL

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A traditonnal firewall available for AWS VPCs

49
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What is a NACL associated with

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A subnet

50
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What does a NACL filter

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Traffic crossing subnet boundaries, in or out

51
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Are connections within a subnet impacted by NACLs

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No

52
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Are NACL stateful or stateless

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Stateless

53
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What do NACL rules match

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IP/CIDR range, port, protocol

54
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What kinds of rules do NACL allow

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Explicit allow and explicit deny

55
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In what order are NACL rules treated

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Processed in order of rule number, lowest number treated first. Once a match occures, the processing stops.
There is an explicit deny for everything if no other rule matches

56
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Are rule numbers unique (for NACL)

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They are unique per rule set

57
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Do you need inbound and outbound rules for NACL

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Yes

58
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Do VPCs have NACL by default

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Yes, it allows all

59
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What are custom NACLs

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You create them, by default they are not associate dwith any VPC. They start off with only a deny all`

60
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What can only NACLs do

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Explicit deny

61
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How would you usually divide security between a security group and NACL

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Use security gorup to allow and NACL to deny

62
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What is the number to number relationship between NACL and subnet

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One subnet can only have one NACL, but a NACL can be associate dto multiple subnets

63
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What is the difference between Security Groups and NACL

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Security Gorups are stateful

64
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Do security groups have explicit deny

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No, they only have allow and implicit deny

65
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What are Security Goups attached to

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ENIs (Elastic Network Interfaces)

66
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Which ENIs are Security Groups attached to

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The primary ENI of an instance

67
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What is the best practice to allow a web-tier server to connect to an app-tier server

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Directly reference the web Security Group in the app instance security group

68
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What does a Security Group reference apply to

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Anything that has the Security Group attached

69
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What can security group self-reference allow you to do

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Makes it so any instance with the SG can communicate with any other instance with the same security group

70
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What is an advantage of Security Group self-reference with regards to IP changes

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They are handled automatically since there is no dependency on them

71
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How do you generally use NACLs and Security groups^

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Use NACL to explicitly block bad actors
Use SG to allow traffic to VPC-based resources

72
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What is NAT used for

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To give a private resource outgoing only access to the internet

73
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What does NAT give to a private CIDR range

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It gives outgoing internet access

74
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What is the IP mapping when using NAT

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Many private IPs to onepublic IP

75
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What kind of NAT does and Internet Gateway do

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Static NAT

76
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WWhat would yhou historically use to provide NAT

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EC2 instance

77
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What is now available to handle NAT

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Managed service: NAT Gateway

78
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How do you configure a NAT gateway

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Put NAT gateway in public subnet
Configure route table in private subnet to point to NAT Gateway in public subnet

79
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Do NAT Gateways have their own public IP

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No, they have to go through Internet Gateway

80
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What kind of IP is used by NAT gateways

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Elastic Ips (Static public IPv4, allocated to your aws account for a region)

81
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What is the resilience of NAT Gateways

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AZ-resilient, but HA in that AZ

82
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What do EC2 instances do by default to data on its network card for which it is neither the source or the destination

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It drops it

83
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What do you need to do to source#destination checks on EC2 instances for NAT to work

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Disable it

84
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What do you do for max availability of NAT

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A NAT gateway in each AZ

85
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Do NAT gateways have free tier

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No

86
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When can a NAT EC2 instance be cheaper than a manage NAT gateway

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If only a test VPC with very low volume (can yuse the smallest instance size)
At high volumes

87
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What are 2 advantages, besides cost (potentially) of using a NAT EC2 instance instead of a managed NAT gateway

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You can use it as a Bastion Host
You can filter traffic using NACLs or security groups

88
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What kind of security do managed NAT Gateways

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Only NACL, not Security Groups

89
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Is NAT required for IPv6

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No, IG works directly with all IPv6 IPs

90
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How do you do bidirectional connectivity for IPv6

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::/0 and Internet Gateway

91
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How do you do egress only connectivity for IPv6

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::/0 + Egress-only internet gateway (works only for IPv6)

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