What is a VPC?

Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: 2 minutes and 25 seconds
Students: 322
Rating: 4.6/5

This lesson provides detail on the AWS Networking and Content Delivery services relevant to the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional exam.

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Learning Objectives

  • Get a foundational understanding of VPCs, their security, and connectivity
  • Understand the basics of networking including Elastic IP addresses, Elastic Network Interfaces, networking with EC2, VPC endpoints, and AWS Global Accelerator
  • Learn about Domain Name System (DNS) services and how Amazon Route 53 provides them
  • Understand the basics of APIs
  • Learn about HTTP and internet communication
  • Understand the difference between HTTP and REST
  • Understand what types of APIs API gateway can create
  • The general differences between those API types
  • How an API gateway functions at a high level
  • Give you an understanding of Amazon CloudFront and its high-level process of operation
  • Understand what an elastic load balancer is and what is used for
  • Be aware of the different load balancers available to you in AWS
  • Understand how ELBs handle different types of requests, including those that are encrypted
  • Be able to identify the different components of ELBs
  • Know how to configure ELBs 
  • Know when and why you might need to configure an SSL/TLS certificate
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