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Creating a virtual private cloud (VPC)

Creating a virtual private cloud (VPC) - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Creating a virtual private cloud (VPC)

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- In the Amazon Web Services cloud, a VPC is a virtual private cloud. Essentially it's a virtual network that I define in the AWS environment. To get started here in the AWS Management Console, I'm going to search in the fine services field, VPC, and I'll select that. That opens up the VPC Management Console where on the left I can click on your VPCs to get a listing of any existing virtual private clouds. We're going to create a new one here because I want to provision a network into which I will then create a subnet, which ultimately will allow me to deploy EC2 instances or virtual machines in that subnet. So I'm going to start by clicking create VPC in the upper right and I'm going to call this VPC1-East. Then I'm going to specify an IP address block I want to assign to this virtual network, whether it be IPV4 or IPV6 based. So in this case, I would have planned this ahead of time, much like I would have on premises…

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