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VPCs

A VPC is a tenant scoped cloud network construct.

VMs inside a VPC can usually communicate with the outside world via NAT, but need some kind of public IP to be reachable from the Global Internet.

Google’s VPC is implemented with Andromeda.

Terms

VM — Virtual Machine

  • Essentially a computer

VPC — Virtual Private Cloud

  • Connects VMs
  • Subnets
  • IP Addresses
  • Route Tables
  • Network Connections
  • Peering
  • Traffic Mirroring
  • Internet Gateway
  • VPC Peering
  • NAT Gateway

References

Apache - Configuring a Virtual Private Cloud

Amazon - What is Amazon VPC?

Microsoft - What is Azure Virtual Network?

Google - VPC networks | Virtual Private Cloud

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