Day Two Cloud 209: Cloud Essentials – Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs)

Today’s Day Two Cloud kicks off an occasional series on cloud essentials. For the first episode we discuss the Virtual Private Cloud, or VPC. A VPC is an fundamental construct of a public cloud. It’s essentially your slice of the shared cloud infrastructure, and you can launch and run other elements within a VPC to support your workload. In this episode, Ned Bellavance walks through key components of the VPC including regions and availability zones, networking and IP addressing, paid add-ons, data egress and associated charges, monitoring and troubleshooting a VPC, and basic security controls. Note that this conversation is AWS-centric. Azure, Google, and other public clouds also have VPC-like constructs, but with their own terminology and subtle differences. Rather than spend all of our time on comparisons, we use AWS as a baseline and will leave it to you to figure out the variations. Sponsor: DoiT An award-winning strategic partner of Google Cloud and AWS, DoiT works alongside more than 3,000 customers to save them time and money. Combining intelligent software with expert consultancy and unlimited support, DoiT delivers the true promise of the cloud at peak efficiency with ease, not cost. Their technology is backed by deep multicloud expertise in the analytics, optimization and governance of cloud architecture, as well as specializations in Kubernetes, AI, and more. Learn more at doit.com. Show Links: Amazon Virtual Private Cloud – AWS Amazon VPC User Guide – AWS Overview of Data Transfer Costs for Common Architectures – AWS Transcript Transcripts are automated and best-effort. Ethan Banks (00:00:00) – Today’s podcast is sponsored by Do It Reduce Your Cloud spend by improving your cloud efficiency with Do It and award winning strat… Full Transcription Edit Speaker’s Names Ethan Banks (00:00:00) – Today’s podcast is sponsored by Do It Reduce Your Cloud spend by improving your cloud efficiency with Do It and award winning strategic partner of Google Cloud and AWS. Find out more at Doit. That’s it. Dot com. Welcome to day two, Cloud. And today, Ned and I are going to begin a series of cloud essentials. What is Cloud Essentials, you might ask? Well, some of the fundamentals that you might want to know about if you are working in the cloud in today’s topic are vpcs. Because net, I don’t think it gets more essential than Vpcs. Ned Bellavance (00:00:36) – They are a pretty foundational building block of pretty pretty much anything else you’re going to do when it comes to cloud computing, at least from an infrastructure perspective. So it’s probably a good place to start. Ethan Banks (00:00:47) – Now, Vpcs. We’re going to be talking about them from an AWS centric perspective. If you look at Azure, if you look at GCP and a lot of the other public cloud providers that are out there, they may have slightly different terminology. Ethan Banks (00:01:01) – But the conversation today that Ned and I are going to have is focused on the way...