Extra Credit

Amazon VPC

Official docs outline

12 sections
  1. How Amazon VPC works

    VPCs, subnets, route tables, gateways and the overall network model.

  2. IP addressing

    IPv4 and IPv6 CIDR blocks, private and public addressing, and IPAM.

  3. Virtual private clouds

    Creating VPCs, DHCP option sets, route tables and gateways.

  4. Subnets

    Public and private subnets, subnet CIDRs and network ACLs.

  5. Internet and NAT connectivity

    Internet gateways, NAT gateways and egress-only gateways for outbound access.

  6. Connecting your VPC

    Site-to-Site VPN, Direct Connect, peering and Transit Gateway connectivity.

  7. Route tables

    Main and custom route tables, route priority and gateway route tables.

  8. VPC peering

    Peering connections between VPCs and their routing requirements.

  9. Network ACLs

    Stateless subnet-level rules, rule numbering and default versus custom ACLs.

  10. Security

    Security groups, network ACLs, flow logs and IAM for VPC.

  11. VPC Flow Logs

    Capturing IP traffic metadata to CloudWatch Logs, S3 or Firehose.

  12. Quotas

    Limits on VPCs, subnets, route tables and gateways per Region.

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