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Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

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Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

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- Just as AWS has virtual servers and virtual hard drives, AWS also has virtual networking components. In the real world, if I had two computers that I wanted to talk to each other, I would plug an ethernet cord into the networking card of each computer, and then I would plug the other end of that ethernet cord into a networking switch. At home, you may also have an internet router that these would plug into, and that router has a four port switch built into it, which works the same way that this dedicated switch does. Now, if I put a private non-routable IP address on each of these computers, such as 192.168.1.2, and then let's say on my other computer, I give it 192.168 1.3., then these two computers could share files over this private network. Notice that I haven't yet connected external internet to either computer or to the switch. In AWS, the network that we just created is called a virtual private cloud or…

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