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Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787125629

Length 600 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Tankariya

Parmar

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Table of Contents (29) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Dedication

Preface

1. AWS Certified Developer – Associate Certification FREE CHAPTER

2. Introduction to Cloud Computing and AWS

3. Identity and Access Management

4. Virtual Private Clouds

5. Getting Started with Elastic Compute Cloud

6. Handling Application Traffic with Elastic Load Balancing

7. Monitoring with CloudWatch

8. Simple Storage Service, Glacier, and CloudFront

9. Other AWS Storage Options

10. AWS Relational Database Services

11. AWS DynamoDB - A NoSQL Database Service

12. Amazon Simple Queue Service

13. Simple Notification Service

14. Simple Workflow Service

15. AWS CloudFormation

16. Elastic Beanstalk

17. Overview of AWS Lambda

18. Mock Tests

Index

VPC peering

VPC peering is a way to connect two different VPCs within the same region for routing traffic between them using IPv4 or IPv6 addresses. Once a VPC peering connection is established between two VPCs, instances in either of these VPCs can communicate with each other as they communicate with local instances within the same VPC.

By default, network traffic either flows within the same VPC or to and from the internet, but it does not route to other VPCs. If there is a need to route traffic between two VPCs, a VPC peering connection can be established. VPC peering can be used between two VPCs within the same region, irrespective of whether they belong to the same AWS account or a different AWS account. Communication among peered VPCs takes place through routing. Network traffic does not flow through any separate VPC resources such as gateway or VPN connections.

Let us understand following critical points for enabling VPC peering: