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Amazon Subnets

AWS Subnet is a segment of a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) that allows you to organize your network resources into logical groupings

Amazon VPC

An Amazon VPC lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define.

AWS Client VPN

AWS Client VPN is a networking service you can use to connect your remote workers and on-premises networks to the cloud. It is a fully managed, elastic VPN service that automatically scales up or down based on user demand.

AWS Direct Connect

Direct Connect is a service that makes it possible for you to establish a dedicated private connection between your network and VPC in the AWS Cloud.

AWS Global Accelerator

AWS Global Accelerator is a networking service that uses the AWS global network to improve application availability, performance, and security through intelligent traffic routing.

AWS PrivateLink

AWS PrivateLink is a highly available, scalable technology that you can use to privately connect your VPC to services and resources as if they were in your VPC.

AWS Site-to-Site VPN

Site-to-Site VPN creates a secure connection between your data center or branch offices and your AWS Cloud resources.

AWS Transit Gateway

AWS Transit Gateway is a network transit hub that you can use to interconnect your virtual private clouds (VPCs) and on-premises networks. It acts as a cloud router that simplifies your network architecture.

Internet Gateway

To allow public traffic from the internet to access your VPC, you attach an internet gateway to the VPC. An internet gateway is a connection between a VPC and the internet

Network ACLs

A network ACL is a virtual firewall that controls inbound and outbound traffic at the subnet level. It performs stateless packet filtering to secure your VPC subnets.

Network Address Translation (NAT) Gateway

A NAT gateway is a managed NAT service that enables instances in private subnets to connect to services outside your VPC while preventing external services from initiating connections to those instances.

Network Traffic in a VPC

Network traffic in a VPC refers to the movement of data packets traveling across a network. Understanding how packets flow through VPC components is essential for managing secure and efficient cloud networking.

Security Groups

A security group is a virtual firewall that controls inbound and outbound traffic at the resource level. It performs stateful packet filtering to secure individual AWS resources like EC2 instances.

Virtual Private Gateway

Virtual Private Gateway is the VPN concentrator on the Amazon side of the Site-to-Site VPN connection.

Virtual Private Network

Virtual Private Network is the overall technology/method for creating secure connections over the internet