Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs)

Summary

Your own logically isolated section of a cloud provider's network — where you define subnets, route tables, and gateways to control exactly how your resources communicate with each other and the internet.

• 1Create a basic VPC with public and private subnets in a free-tier account.
• 2Learn the role of an internet gateway (public access) versus a NAT gateway (private outbound access).
• 3Diagram a VPC's route table and explain how traffic actually flows through it.