Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Tutorial

This tutorial provides an overview of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), a commercial cloud computing service that provides users a virtual private cloud, by "provisioning a logically isolated section of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud".



Enterprise customers are able to access the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) over an IPsec based virtual private network. Unlike traditional EC2 instances which are allocated internal and external IP numbers by Amazon, the customer can assign IP numbers of their choosing from one or more subnets.



By giving the user the option of selecting which AWS resources are public facing and which are not, VPC provides much more granular control over security.