AWS Certified Solution Architect Official Study Guide, Study Notes -VPC

Introduction

VPC:Virtual private cloud, is a vritual network, provide logical isolation

VPC

• each VPC has items
  • subnets
    • from /16 to /28
    • AWS reserves first 4 and the last IP.
    • subnets resides in one AZ and cannot SPAN zones.
    • subnets can be classified as public(has IGW), private(do NOT has IGW), VPN-only (to VPN and NOT has a IGW)
    • each AZ has a default VPC, 172.31.0.0/16
    • default VPC of each AZ has a public subnet of /20 (4096 - 4)
  • route table
    • local(not default) route can not be modified or deleted, to route VPC internal traffic. it looks like this: destination=10.0.3.0/24 route=local
    • you can replace the main route table with a custom table that you have created, so that each new subnet is automatically associated with it.