Chapter 6: AWS Networking Services – VPCs, Route53, and CloudFront

Networking is a fundamental component of any IT infrastructure, whether on-premises on in the cloud. Without networking, it would not have been possible to architect the complex world of communications that we live in today. In the absence of networking, there would be no internet in the modern world.

Almost every business today needs to have some form of network connectivity if it is to collaborate with partners and end customers. In this chapter, we look at some of the core building blocks of designing a network. We will also look at network services offered on AWS and, specifically, how Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) enables customers to build multiple isolated and secure networks within their AWS accounts, allowing them to isolate workloads and applications.

We examine AWS Route53, which is Amazon's Domain Name System (DNS) that enables the routing of network traffic across the AWS ecosystem and the...