Episode 75
We had a four-week break from AWS to talk extensively about GeeCON, as well as our guest author article about scaling Scrum. Let’s get back to the cloud again as we have another important group of services to tackle. I’ve mentioned networking services in the AWS introduction episode, as one of three most basic, along with storage and compute. This was supposed to be third article about group of services, but somehow it comes fourth, after an article on databases. Also, it will have two parts. Let’s start with VPC service.
Virtual Private Cloud is used to divide our cloud into logically separate sections and conquer various network elements, including: subnets, route tables, DHCP, access control lists, security groups, internet gateways, elastic IPs, elastic network interfaces, endpoints, NAT gateways and instances, peering connections and VPN configurations. Lots of stuff to play with indeed.
Basics
VPC is a networking layer for EC2 instances. It was launched three years later than EC2 and, because of that, there are actually two networking platforms in AWS. The older one is called EC2-classic, but Read the rest of this entry »
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