VPC Flashcards
What is a VPC?
Virtual Private Cloud
Allows you to specify an IP address range for your VPC, add subnets, security groups, and route tables.
Networking layer of EC2.
How many VPC subnets can you add to each availability zone?
one or more
Subnet
Range of IP addresses in your VPC. Can launch AWS into a specified subnet.
How many route tables can a subnet be attached to?
Only one route table at a time
Resource that can be connected to the internet
Public subnet
Resource that won’t be connected to the internet
Private Subnet
How to connect a VPC to a corporate data center
IPsec AWS managed VPN connection
What 2 things is VPN Connection consist of?
Virtual Private Gateway
Customer Gateway
Virtual Private Gateway
VPN concentrator on Amazon side of the VPN connection attached to your VPC
Customer Gateway
physical device or software app on your side of the VPN located in you data center
How to move a virtual private gateway to AWS Transit Gateway without having to make any changes on your customer Gateway
AWS Site-to-Site Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Allows you to privately connect your VPC to supported AWS Services hosted on their AWS account.
AWS PrivateLink
Enable routing traffic between VPCs using private IP addresses
VPC peering connection
Can you create a VPC peering connection with VPC that have overlapping CIDR blocks?
No
Primary CIDR block
range of IPv4 addresses for VPC in form of CIDR block
