AWS Networking Fundamentals – A Brief Introduction for Beginners
AWS provides various AWS services to create a network of interlinked
resources, and we will discuss a few of them with the following topics
covered.
AWS Networking
Amazon VPC
Amazon EC2
Amazon Route 53
Amazon Load Balancing
AWS Private Link
AWS Direct Connect
Amazon Gateway
AWS Network Architecture
Conclusion
AWS Networking
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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Amazon VPC
Amazon VPC or Virtual Private Cloud is a service that allows us to create an isolated virtual
network for our Amazon resources. A virtual network is a private network that is always hidden
from the outside world, and you can perform certain operations that you don’t want to make
public. Any user with their AWS account can host Amazon VPC. You can create, access, and
manage Amazon VPC with the help of certain tools and services like the Amazon Web Service
Management Console, Amazon CLI (Command Line Interface), Amazon SDK, and Query API.
AWS Direct Connect
AWS Direct Connect provides a private connection between a customer's on-
premises data center and the cloud without using the public internet. This
Amazon networking service uses an Ethernet cable to connect an
organization's internal workloads to one of AWS' Direct Connect locations. Its
offers connection speeds from 50 Mbps to 100 Gbps.
AWS cloud users can choose between two types of connections with this
service:
Dedicated. The dedicated connection uses an Ethernet cable to
create a connection with an individual customer. AWS cloud users
request a dedicated connection through the AWS Direct Connect
console, the command line interface or the API.
Hosted. The hosted connection requires an AWS Direct Connect
Partner to provision the physical Ethernet connection on behalf of a
customer. For the hosted connection, IT teams must choose a partner
in the AWS Direct Connect Delivery Partners Program.