VPC End Points

Question 1

What is a VPC End Point?

Answer 1

Endpoints are virtual devices. They are horizontally scaled, redundant, and highly available VPC components. They allow communication between instances in your VPC and services without imposing availability risks or bandwidth constraints on your network traffic.

Question 2

What do VPC End Points allow you to do?

Answer 2

A VPC endpoint enables you to privately connect your VPC to supported AWS services and VPC endpoint services powered by AWS PrivateLink without requiring an internet gateway, NAT device, VPN connection, or AWS Direct Connect connection. Instances in your VPC do not require public IP addresses to communicate with resources in the service. Traffic between your VPC and the other service does not leave the Amazon network.

Question 3

What are the two types of VPC End Point Devices?

Answer 3

1. Interface Endpoint

2. Gateway Endpoint

Question 4

What is an Interface Endpoint?

Answer 4

An interface endpoint is an elastic network interface with a private IP address that serves as an entry point for traffic destined to a supported service. Do not need to know all the supported services, there are a lot

Question 5

What is a Gateway Endpoint?

Answer 5

A gateway endpoint is a gateway that you specify as a target for a route in your route table for traffic destined to a supported AWS service.

Currently, Gateway Endpoints support two services..

1. Amazon S3
2. DynamoDB