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Designing AWS Environments

You're reading from   Designing AWS Environments Architect large-scale cloud infrastructures with AWS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789535549
Length 174 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Wayde Gilchrist Wayde Gilchrist
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Securing your VPC

In the previous section, we looked at ways to connect to your VPC, which included gateways, VPN connections, direct connect, and peering. In this section, we're going to add some additional security to your VPC, by adding network access control lists to our subnets. We're also going to talk more about private subnets, and how administrators can still connect to private instances, by using Bastion instances. In an earlier chapter, we talked about security groups, and how these are like firewalls that protect our instances. An additional type of firewall we can use is network access control lists, or just network ACLs.

NACLs

While security groups surround our instances, network ACLs allow and deny...

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