Find answers to some of the common questions about Amazon EC2.| Amazon Web Services, Inc.
In a previous post, I reviewed what a public subnet and Internet Gateway (IGW) are and that they allowed outbound and inbound connectivity to instances (ie, virtual machines) running in the AWS cloud. If you're the least bit security conscious, your reaction might be, "No way! I can't have my instances sitting right on the Internet without any protection". Fear not, reader. This post will explain the mechanisms that the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) affords you to protect your instances.| packetmischief.ca