AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a service that allows you to provision a logically isolated section of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define. It provides granular control over your virtual networking environment, including…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2009
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- AWS VPC solved the critical problem of providing network isolation, security, and granular control for customer resources within the public cloud. Before VPC, AWS customers shared a flat network (EC2-Classic), which made it challenging to implement enterprise-grade security policies, adhere to compliance requirements, and build complex, multi-tiered applications with private network connectivity.
- Platforms
- AWS Cloud
Related technologies
- AWS Transit Gateway
- AWS S3 (Simple Storage Service) - via VPC Endpoints
- Terraform
- AWS EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)
- AWS VPN (Site-to-Site VPN, Client VPN)
- AWS PrivateLink
- AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management)
- AWS Direct Connect
- AWS Load Balancers (ALB/NLB)
- AWS RDS (Relational Database Service)
- CloudFormation
- AWS Lambda
Notable users
- Netflix
- NASDAQ
- Shell
- Siemens
- Capital One
- General Electric
- Amazon.com