December 7, 2023

AWS Networking Fundamentals – A Brief Introduction for Beginners

A Network is a way of communication between devices. AWS Networking allows creating a fast, reliable, and secure network. AWS offers various cloud services that are on-demand, available, and highly scalable. Various AWS services make an AWS network complete, like Amazon VPC, Amazon EC2, Amazon Route 53, Load Balancers, Amazon Gateway, and more. All the services individually create an Amazon Network. To understand AWS Networking better, it is important to get familiar with all the Amazon services that create a network.

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AWS Route 53 Introduction

Amazon Route 53 is a highly efficient and scalable cloud web service and is also used for health checking of resources. It provides developers with an efficient and extremely reliable way to connect users to internet applications without any downtime, it still has downtime in servers or applications but users/customers may not be aware of it. It effectively connects user requests to AWS such as Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancing, or Amazon S3 buckets. In this blog, we are going to cover everything that you need to understand about AWS Route 53

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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (AWS VPC) – Overview, Benefits & Components

AWS VPC is one of the most popular and widely used services of Amazon Web Services. This is generally because Amazon VPC is mostly related to the security concepts in the cloud and access to the data inside a third-party data center. AWS VPC is a private subsection of AWS in which you can place AWS resources such as EC2 instances and databases. You have full control over who has access to the resources that you place inside the AWS Virtual Private Cloud. In this post, I will give you a walkthrough of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (AWS VPC) that can help you understand how to implement AWS VPC and how to do that in relation to your infrastructure.

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Building a VPC with CloudFormation – Part 2

The Cloud Formation template we created in part one provide a simple, reusable way to create a simple VPC. However, this template is not as flexible as it can be. We would like to have a template that can build a VPC with a varying number of subnets to handle development vs test vs production usage. We would like something that could create public-only subnets if we needed to quickly create something for demo / POC purposes. nstead of creating separate templates for these cases, we can make our existing template more flexible by using Parameters, Conditions, Mappings, and Outputs.

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Building a VPC with CloudFormation – Part 1

This is the first part of series Building a VPC with CloudFormation. This article describes how you can use AWS CloudFormation to create and manage a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), complete with subnets, NATting, route tables, etc. The emphasis is use of CloudFormation and Infrastructure as Code to build and manage resources in AWS, less about the issues of VPC design.

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Introduction to AWS VPC Endpoints — What is VPC Endpoints (PrivateLinks)?

VPC Endpoints are a new feature of VPCs (Virtual Private Clouds), a VPC endpoint enables you to privately connect your VPC to supported AWS services and VPC endpoint services powered by PrivateLink using its private IP address, without requiring an internet gateway, NAT device, VPN connection, or AWS Direct Connect connection. Traffic between VPC and AWS service does not leave the Amazon network.

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