Networking

Difference between AWS Internet Gateway ( IGW ) and NAT Gateway or NAT Instance?

What is the difference between AWS Internet Gateway ( IGW ) and NAT Gateway or NAT Instance? One very basic way of looking at the two types of access are in terms of where the initiating User or App is coming from. If the initiating User or Application is inside AWS they can use a …

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What are the components of a VPC – some are optional

VPC networking components For each VPC – A Virtual Router is provided and used – you cannot drop this router and per AWS Documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Networking.html You can use the following components to configure networking in your VPC. Topics Elastic network interfaces Route tables Managed prefix lists Internet gateways Egress-only internet gateways NAT DHCP options sets …

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EC2 instances inside a VPC use their default route to send all traffic to the virtual router provided by VPC itself

The VPC router then forwards the traffic according the the VPC route tables for the instance’s subnet. The routes in the VPC route table do not propagate back into the instances themselves, but they’re used to make forwarding decisions for all the traffic. Forwarding traffic “directly” from one instance to another in VPC isn’t a …

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AWS Networking a Three Tiered Network Architecture Diagram With High Availability Across Two Availability Zones / One Region

The Following Diagram Shows AWS Networking a Three Tiered Network Architecture Diagram With High Availability Across Two Availability Zones / One Region   To further increase HA, you can setup Multi-Region High Availability. More specifically, In addition to building a highly available application that runs in a single region, if your application requires fault tolerance …

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AWS Virtual Private Cloud Internet GateWays – IGW

Figure one shows the route table my route table: An Internet Gateway (IGW) is built to automatically: scale horizontally, be redundant, and have a and high degree of availability. An Amazon IGW is a VPC component that allows communication between instances in your Amazon VPC and the Internet by providing a target in your Amazon …

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