Creation of VPC and Subnet
VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
Amazon VPC is the
networking layer for Amazon EC2. VPC is a virtual network dedicated to
your AWS account. A Subnet is a range of IP address in the VPC.
Creating a VPC:
- Login to AWS with valid credentials
- Click on Services and type VPC in the search field.
- Click on Create VPC
- Give a Name Tag. For Exp: DemoVPC
- Enter respective value in IPv4 CIDR block field. For Exp : 10.0.0.0/24. For more information, please navigate to here.
- Click on Create button.
Subnet
At a high level, you
can think of a VPC in AWS as a logical container that separates resources you
create from other customers within the Amazon Cloud. It is you defining a
network of your own within Amazon. You can think of a VPC like an apartment
where your furniture and items are analogous to databases and instances. The
walls of your apartment isolate and protect your things from being accessible
from other tenants of the apartment complex.
Subnets would then be
analogous to the different rooms in your apartment. They are containers within
your VPC that segment off a slice of the CIDR block you define in your VPC.
Subnets allow you to give different access rules and place resources in
different containers where those rules should apply. You wouldn't have a big
open window in your bathroom on the shower wall so people can see you naked,
much like you wouldn't put a database with secretive information in a public
subnet allowing any and all network traffic. You might put that database in a
private subnet (i.e. a locked closet).
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