Hello and welcome to this learning path which has been designed to provide you with an all-round understanding of AWS Virtual Private Clouds, commonly referred to as VPCs.  VPCs are essentially your own private area of AWS allowing you to safely and securely provision resources and launch services within a virtual network environment. 

My name is Stuart Scott, and I am the AWS content Director here at Cloud Academy.  Feel free to connect with me to ask any questions using the details shown on the screen, alternatively, you can always get in touch with us here at Cloud Academy by sending an e-mail to support@cloudacademy.com where one of our Cloud experts will reply to your question.

If you are a Solutions Architect, or have responsibility to monitor, maintain, and manage a VPC then you should have an understanding of the different components that make up a Virtual Private Cloud. This learning path would also be beneficial for security architects and anyone looking to become certified in AWS.  

As you progress through this guided learning path, you will be presented with a series of on-demand courses, hands-on labs, and lab challenges, allowing you to become proficient in being able to design, provision, secure and monitor your VPC architecture.  As a result, you will learn how to:

• Confidently architect a VPC across multiple availability zones within a Region, using different networking components

• Secure your VPCs, helping you to protect your resources within them

• Assess which method of connectivity to your VPCs would be best in different scenarios

• Understand static and dynamic routing in AWS, including BGP's role in routing in AWS

• Understand different networking features, including Elastic IP Addresses, Elastic Network Interfaces, Elastic Network Adapters

• How to use VPC Endpoints to secure connectivity

• Learn how the AWS Global Accelerator plays a part in performance

• The benefits and capabilities and sharing of VPC resources using Resource Access Manager

• Create and analyze a connection using the VPC reachability Analyzer

• Discuss IPv4, IPv6 and how to configure it to be supported by Amazon VPCs and EC2 Instances

• Understand what an AWS Network Firewall is and other VPC security features

• Learn how to centrally manage all AWS Network Firewalls using AWS Firewall Manager

• Understand AWS PrivateLink, as well as its typical use cases

• Learn how to create your own large network topology that uses AWS Transit Gateway to connect multiple VPCs

• Understand Inter-regional and intra-regional communication patterns

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