Summary

In this chapter, we looked at AWS cloud networking services. We went over the AWS network definitions of Region, Availability Zone, edge locations, and Transit Center. By understanding the overall AWS network, this gives us a good idea of some of the limitations and constraints of the other AWS network services. Throughout this chapter, we used the AWS CLI, the Python Boto3 library, as well as CloudFormation to automate some of the tasks.

We covered AWS Virtual Private Cloud in depth, with the configuration of the route table and route targets. The example on security groups and network ACLs took care of the security for our VPC. We also looked at EIPs and NAT gateways in relation to allowing external access.

There are two ways to connect AWS VPC to on-premise networks: Direct Connect and IPSec VPN. We briefly looked at each and the advantages of using them. Toward the end of this chapter, we looked at network scaling services offered by AWS, including...