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Create A VPC In AWS

In this article, we will create a VPC in AWS.

What Is A VPC?

VPC is the logically isolated portion of AWS cloud where you can deploy your own AWS resources. You can think of VPC as a private space.

Component	Description
Virtual Private Cloud	A logically isolated virtual network in the AWS cloud
Subnet	A segment of a VPC’s IP address range where you can place groups of isolated resources
Internet Gateway	The component of Amazon VPC for connecting to the public Internet
NAT Gateway	A highly available, managed Network Address Translation (NAT) service for your resources in a private subnet to access the Internet
Virtual Private Gateway	The Amazon VPC side of a VPN connection
Customer Gateway	Your side of a VPN connection
Router	Routers interconnect subnets and direct traffic between Internet gateways, virtual private gateways, NAT gateways, and subnets
Peering Connection	A peering connection allows 2 VPCs to talk over private IP address
VPC Endpoints	Enables private connectivity to services hosted in AWS, from within your VPC without using an Internet Gateway, VPN, Network Address Translation (NAT) devices, or firewall proxies
Egress-only Internet Gateway	A stateful gateway to provide egress only access for IPv6 traffic from the VPC to the Internet.

To create the VPC, Search the word vpc in the search box. Click on the VPC service in the search result.

The VPC home page will appear. On the left-hand side, click on the Your VPCs link.

Another page will appear where the list of VPCs will be displayed. To create a new VPC, click on the Create VPC button.

The Create VPC screen will appear. Enter the details and click on the Create VPC button.

The VPC gets created.

You can create up to 5 VPC per region.

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