Summary
Amazon service that allows you to control the virtual networking environment.
Overview
| Main Website | aws.amazon.com/vpc/ |
| Experience | Still learning, good online resources available but not necessarily newbie friendly. |
Notes
- Prior to VPC, I had very little experience in networking and the related security concerns, so the learning curve was steeper with VPC than other AWS services.
- There is a good selection of resources for learning about AWS in general but few are geared to true VPC newbies.
- For newbies, understanding the role played by Route Tables vs NACLs vs Security Groups and how they all fit together may be a challenge.
- I found the Udemy class "Learn Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)" by Simply Edukator helpful but it is a little dated (e.g. use of NAT instance vs NAT gateway). I would still recommend it for fellow newbies as it does walk through the process step-by-step and establishes some best practices.
