Cloud Connectivity and VPCs
See how virtual private clouds isolate and link cloud resources.
Your Own Cloud Network
When you build in the public cloud, you do not just get servers, you get a network too. A VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) is a logically isolated section of a provider cloud where you place your resources. It is your private network in someone else data center.
Other tenants share the same physical hardware, but your VPC keeps your traffic and addressing separate from everyone else.
VPC Address Space
You define your VPC with a private IP address range using CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) notation, such as 10.0.0.0/16. This block becomes the address space for all resources you launch inside it.
Just like an on-premises network, you choose private ranges (10.x, 172.16-31.x, or 192.168.x) so the VPC can later connect cleanly to your office network without address conflicts.
All lessons in this course
- Virtual Machines and Hypervisors
- Virtual Switches and Networks
- Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud
- Cloud Connectivity and VPCs