VPC Flashcards
VPC
Virtual Private Cloud
Soft limit of VPC and Subnets per region
5 VPC, 200 subnets
Configuring routing to the Internet
Create VPC. Go to Internet gateway bar.
Create Internet gateway and attach this to the VPC.
Go to route tables bar. Create route table. Click Edit routes and add a new route: Destination 0.0.0.0/0 and target is your IGW. Associate this route table with a subnet
NACL
Network Access Control List. It functions the same way as firewall does on PC
NACL are stateless. So they do not recognize responses as being responses for a request which was allowed to
Security groups
Security Groups are firewalls that are applied to individual instances or other devices like load balancers, interfaces
Security groups are statefull. So they do recognize when a request comes into port 80 and a load balancer responses to ephemeral port, they recohnize this to be a response
VPC Peering
Allows to connect two VPCs