Availability ZoneĪn Availability Zone is a set of buildings, Internet uplinks, and power. This would be known as a virtual machine (VM) by most network engineers. The Fundamentalsįigure 1 – Virtual private cloud (VPC) example architecture. To begin, I recommend watching Another Day, Another Billion Packets from re:Invent to understand what’s going on under the hood with packet forwarding, and how the data and control planes work. Since few other networking environments have the same requirements as Amazon VPC, it’s hard to draw a simple comparison to existing networking technology. Amazon VPC was built to provide the scale, security, performance, and availability AWS customers require.
To start, Amazon VPC is the networking layer that AWS services use for connectivity. If not, you may want to look at the Amazon VPC documentation. If acronyms such as BGP, ECMP, ACL, VIP, and NIC are familiar to you, you’re in the right place.
#Free port forwarding vpn space engineers series#
In this series of posts, I’ll explain Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) concepts using familiar dialect, to help network engineers at AWS Partner Network (APN) firms take advantage of networking in AWS. That’s because I’m a network engineer, and it’s how we talk.Īs more organizations move to Amazon Web Services (AWS), increasing numbers of network engineers are being asked to design and operate AWS networks. I relate better to networking when people use words and phrases I know, such as “router on a stick,” “MPLS WAN,” and “VRF,” and then show me a packet capture. Read Part 2 >īy Nick Matthews, Partner Solutions Architect, CCIE #23560
Editor’s note: This is the first of a popular two-part series by Nick Matthews.