Creating and managing a VPC
Creating a VPC allows you to establish the networking backbone for your applications. VPC provides you with secure and logical isolation for your resources in the cloud, while also offering a scalable and flexible environment akin to operating your own data center. The creation of VPC can be considered as a foundation step to launch and manage your resources in AWS.
Before diving into the creation process, it is important to note that every VPC has to be associated with an IP address range (CIDR block). The CIDR range specified during the creation of VPC cannot be changed afterward. The CIDR block can be anywhere from /28 (16 IP addresses) to /16 (65,536 IP addresses). Remember to choose a size suitable for your anticipated scale of workloads.
To create a VPC, you will have to navigate to the VPC dashboard on the management console. From there, you can follow the high-level steps:
- Click on Your VPCs and then Create VPC:
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