What are the components of Amazon VPC?
Amazon VPC comprises a variety of objects that will be familiar to customers with existing networks:
- A Virtual Private Cloud: A logically isolated virtual network in the AWS cloud. You define a VPC’s IP address space from ranges you select.
- Subnet: A segment of a VPC’s IP address range where you can place groups of isolated resources.
- Internet Gateway: The Amazon VPC side of a connection to the public Internet.
- NAT Gateway: A highly available, managed Network Address Translation (NAT) service for your resources in a private subnet to access the Internet.
- Hardware VPN Connection: A hardware-based VPN connection between your Amazon VPC and your datacenter, home network, or co-location facility.
- Virtual Private Gateway: The Amazon VPC side of a VPN connection.
- Customer Gateway: Your side of a VPN connection.
- Peering Connection: A peering connection enables you to route traffic via private IP addresses between two peered VPCs.
- VPC Endpoints: Enables private connectivity to services hosted in AWS, from within your VPC without using an Internet Gateway, VPN, Network Address Translation (NAT) devices, or firewall proxies.
- Egress-only Internet Gateway: A stateful gateway to provide egress only access for IPv6 traffic from the VPC to the Internet.
