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Cloud networking

Cloud networking

- [Narrator] The third fundamental building block of cloud computing is cloud networking. Cloud providers make a ton of services available to build and manage the virtual networks that connect systems together in the cloud. Cloud networking is all highly virtualized to allow customers to design and customize their own networks that meet their unique business requirements. You can segment systems however you'd like, and also carefully restrict which systems can access each other and which can be accessed from the public internet. In a traditional on-premises data center, network managers use the concept of virtual LANs, or VLANs, to segment systems by purpose. For example, we might have a VLAN set up that contains systems that are publicly accessible, a VLAN for database servers, and a VLAN for other administrative systems. We could then create firewall rules that allow public access only to the public VLAN and restrict…

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