This learning path 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 provision resources and launch services in this virtual network environment.
Learning Objectives:
- Confidently architect a VPC across multiple availability zones within a Region
- Explain different networking components commonly used within AWS VPCs
- 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
- Learn BGP's role in routing in AWS
- Understand what Elastic IP Addresses (EIPs) are
- Understand when to use Elastic Network Interfaces (ENIs)
- Learn how to use EC2 Enhanced Networking with the Elastic Network Adapter (ENA)
- How to use VPC Endpoints to secure connectivity
- Learn how the AWS Global Accelerator plays a part in performance
- The benefits of sharing VPCs
- The role of RAM in sharing VPCs
- The capabilities and restrictions of VPC sharing
- Learn how to 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
- Learn the differences between Network Access Control List, Security Groups, and an AWS Network Firewall
- Understand the options for deploying AWS Network Firewalls from Distributed, Centralized, and a combination of both
- Learn how to centrally manage all AWS Network Firewalls using AWS Firewall Manager
- Understand AWS PrivateLink, as well as its typical use cases
- AWS PrivateLink components
- How to provide and control access to a PrivateLink resource
- Learn how to create your own large network topology that uses AWS Transit Gateway to connect multiple VPCs
- Understand when and why it becomes appropriate to transition away from the standard methods of VPC peering when connecting large numbers of networks
- Inter-regional communication patterns
- Intra-regional communication patterns
Prerequisites:
As a perquisite to taking this learning path, you may find it beneficial in having some familiarity with the fundamentals of AWS and some of its core services.
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