AWS VPC Beginner to Pro - Virtual Private Cloud Tutorial

In this AWS tutorial you'll learn AWS Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) from beginner level through to advanced concepts. You'll be an AWS VPC guru in no time!
An AWS VPC is a logically isolated portion of the cloud into which you can deploy your resources. You get complete control over the networking environment including IP address ranges, subnets, routing, firewalls and more.
After going through the theory using animated diagrams to help explain the concepts, you'll be able to learn-by-doing with many practical lessons.
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⭐️ Course Contents ⭐️
(0:00:00) Introduction
(0:01:46) IPv4 Addressing Primer
(0:12:40) Amazon VPC Overview
(0:20:31) Defining VPC CIDR Blocks
(0:26:54) VPC Wizard
(0:29:48) Create a Custom VPC with Subnets
(0:35:51) Launch Instances and Test VPC
(0:45:25) Security Groups and Network ACL
(0:56:16) Configure Security Groups and NACLs
(1:06:30) Amazon VPC Peering
(1:12:16) Configure VPC Peering
(1:22:10) VPC Endpoints
(1:26:40) Create VPC Endpoint
(1:36:54) AWS Client VPN
(1:39:42) AWS Site-to-Site VPN
(1:41:49) AWS VPN CloudHub
(1:44:49) AWS Direct Connect (DX)
(1:51:29) AWS Direct Connect Gateway
(1:54:58) AWS Transit Gateway
(1:58:53) Using IPv6 in a VPC
(2:04:53) Create VPC Flow Logs
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[@putiatasul]

just want to say thanks for this content! I've watch and learn VPC too many times for now from a different course, but your content finally made me understood the big picture. I really like the diagram, it help me understand how everything is connected.

[@grim789]

I have paid for multiple courses and your free content is 100× better and more clear! Thank you so much I subbed to this guys personal channel he deserves way more.

[@darwinvelascoecu3815]

I've learned a lot with Neal's easy explanations and hands-on labs. Not bored too :)

[@renatospaka]

Hey Neal, I'm completely blown away by this course, the high level of quality you delivered on it. Thanks you so much

[@chitchatvn5208]

I agreed. The content and presentation are top notch. Thanks a lot.

[@apekshitpagare3954]

At this point college should just handout degrees for some money as this content is more learnable than lectures itself!

[@NageshLakinepally]

Uni courses are always outdated and they just give us foundation

[@paulywalnutz5855]

im in my lecture now and just had to turn it off and watch this

[@bagusprabangkoro4334]

What a very useful video! It unravels any confusion around vpc and a lot of stuff going on around it. But it's indeed a heavy topic tho. 1:36:24 actually if you want to delete bucket policy without login as root or deleting your bucket, you can do: aws s3api delete-bucket-policy --bucket

[@JoseGonzalez-lt9kr]

After studying this lesson I got your course to prepare for the AWS Arc prof. you are a create teacher with values insides.

[@sampleshawn5380]

I thanks Neil, from the bottom of my heart for providing this content for free & also putting some much effort in explanation & visualization for easy understanding, may god bless you with good fortune.

[@timothyvanpelt_cyclist]

Great course Neal, I like how you explain everything, clearly, with illustrations and hands-on examples. Thanks for sharing!

[@hussainlokhandwala2245]

Thank you so much for this video. I had some doubts regarding the VPC and it's pretty much clear watching this video. Thank you!!

[@koleen3799]

Salute to Neal. His vids helped me passed the SAA-C02 last March 2021. 🐳🎉🎉

[@TPRighteous]

Congrats

[@zimcanit6647]

Well done ! What else did you use to study?

[@koleen3799]

@@zimcanit6647 i also took the SAA-C02 course from ACloudGuru. Both ACloud’s and Neal’s are close to the actual AWS exam. Wishing you all the best if you’re planning to take the certification 🎉

[@sarwarmehdi714]

Can you tell me how this certification helped you... It's been 1.5 years... What are you doing these days? I am also planning to take this certificate.

[@koleen3799]

@@sarwarmehdi714 Hello. This course from Neal helped me a lot not only just to pass the exam but for my day to day work as an AWS Consultant. The best practices on the course helped me design a well architected and cost effective cloud solution. After I passed the exam, career opportunities opened up and it boosted my career and overall market value. I highly recommend Neal’s course and any AWS related courses that you think will help you to ace the exam cause reward out there is very generous it may not be on your current employment but generally in the tech space. To date, I am a Blockchain developer now and still working on some cloud projects from time to time whenever the opportunity permits. Best of luck to you and hope you share your journey here soon 🙇‍♂️

[@lothalopolis]

I have done the AWS certification course by Neal, and it was really good! The format of first theory then lab, and the well thought-out examples are very very useful!

[@Mubashir7933]

bro I'm preparing for solution architect associate exam what tips can you give me?

[@D-D365]

Thank you for this detailed tutorial on AWS VPC.

[@SunkanmiOduwole]

I am only 18 mins into the video and i am already feeling like a PRO. Thank you for breaking this down in a clear language.

[@user-us7rg4cd6p]

Being delusional is no good

[@GezildoAnacleto-zm3qf]

My English is not advanced, but I managed to absorb all the content without any problems, excellent content, congratulations.

[@mohamudosmanali1219]

Wow, such an amazing explanation of AWS VPS, simply another level. Thank you Neal.

[@oladipupoibeun1434]

I'd pay to be taught Neal. extremely high quality on the delivery

[@AkhtarWaqqas]

I am impressed with you teaching and presentation skills. Well done.

[@paritoshd9776]

Hello Neal, this is a gold mine of VPC. That's all I have to say. 💯

[@JBS439]

Thanks so much for everything Neal

[@bespired]

Thanks Neal. Will be watching this often. Hard stuff. Difficult to determine what to actually do in our microservice env.

[@innocentdoodles1938]

Neal you are the finest. i really like the way you teach. i have viewed other mentors too but they are not good as You.

[@meeradad]

Fantastic course. Thank you for putting together this high quality and clear material on such a complex and detailed topic. If I may suggest a small addition you might consider: it would be wonderful to have an end section with a glossary, and perhaps a high level summary (review) of the course.

[@dearheart2]

Thanks, high quality and tempo is great.

[@elishak797]

Neal always has great content.

[@haiquannguyen2583]

Great, all we need are here. Thanks teacher

[@stargategoku]

Thanks a lot for posting. Very helpful

[@arbobmehmood5831]

Much needed tutorial. Thanks as always FCC.

[@bidyutbikashtalukdar8675]

Are you on IIT M data science

[@arbobmehmood5831]

@@bidyutbikashtalukdar8675 Nope

[@raychang6443]

I really like your accent and clear presentation!

[@enricocecchetti561]

This course is gold.

[@muddasarnazar]

wow, impressive training. really really useful

[@MrCodix]

brilliant! Thank you for this tutorial.

[@contentg]

Neal, Thank you so much for this incredible video 👍 Question: Could youkindly share the link to the subnetting calculator you mentioned at 25:48 please? Thank you

[@DARELASISI]

Thanks for this video. So informative.

[@nikooekhtiari7234]

Such a clear way of teaching he has. I enjoyed this course very much. Thank you so much Neal.

[@CasioArtist]

Excellent ! Loved your Content. Thanks a lot for this Video.

[@wilcc1]

I was waiting for it. Thanks

[@aswinivayyala5118]

Awesome explanation..crystal clear..!!

[@saurabhvats3494]

hi Neal thanks for this video, very well explained

[@thecloudterminal]

Thank you for such an awesome tutorial!

[@tendulkarsam1303]

Amazing session.

[@raheelmasood8656]

What a teacher he is !

[@martynlaidler4870]

Really good course, thank you

[@samirrobin3524]

Thank you so much for this amazing content.❤❤

[@asdasddas100]

Crazy, I just came off a 3 hour session of trying to figure out VPC

[@meditationmusic9488]

Thank so very much for help.

[@pythonbrothersandfamily]

This is siiick. Thanks a lot my bro

[@damiencuillery1734]

awesome courses !

[@Larry21924]

This is an absolute delight. I had the pleasure of reading something similar, and it was an absolute delight. "Mastering AWS: A Software Engineers Guide" by Nathan Vale

[@SOG989]

This Mr Neal seems to know what he is talking about 👍

[@681104gh]

Amazing resource

[@razeal1988]

Thanks!

[@Aachille5]

Amazing content!

[@miriangoutch9722]

This is amazing... Thanks...

[@antonisstellas741]

Thank you so much!!!!

[@AFurreh]

For anybody using this in 2024, when you launch your EC2 instances at 41:05 , you must set --metadata-options HttpTokens=optional as EC2 now defaults to using IMDSv2, which will break the user-data script as it uses IMDSv1 to get the metadata.

[@harshpatel1385]

Man thanks for saving my day

[@oseoriabure1969]

Thanks Neal

[@PoliticalPanic]

you're a champion!!!

[@emmanuelokororie4]

Thank you so much! Please how can we get access to the website you used to calculate the subnets?

[@supriyochatterjee4095]

Awesome Sir, it will be great if a free certificate of completion can be added and included with all these courses and it will be very very helpful for many people's like me who can't afford paid Vendor Certifications

[@user-pn2wt9xr9m]

Hey neal, you told earlier in this video that the network acl are applied to subnet level, and SG are applied to EC2/instance level, we got it, but here you are applying the Network ACL to VPC, its working , can you give some justifcation. And great video!!!

[@marekkeller8762]

Good content, well presented

[@ruijiang2009]

This tutorial is really good. If I can give more than 1 like, I will.

[@DhirajPatra]

Very informative

[@MrKarmakills]

At the 42 minute mark what cli was he using to spin up that instance? i know he was using the amazon cli but was he using a different virtual machine entirely and he ssh into in or a aws ec2 instance and he ssh into that and ran those aws cli commands?

[@akshayavenkatesan2912]

what are the other ways VPCs communicate with each other if not VPC peering ? Say I have a application VPC and DB VPC , how can i essentially make them communicate ?

[@codingman8056]

awesome course

[@TrulyLordOfNothing]

If you look at the RFC 1918 range, why would an EC2 instance deployed simply to host a web app require so many addresses? (I know its the technical limit but my question is the practical need for such a huge range) Isn't just one adress for the machine itself enough? Or this taking into consideration that tomorrow there could be hundreds of docker containers that require their own network address? Can anyone throw some light on this?

[@jasbirsinghsohi]

Marvellous

[@Blaqmann05]

Great content and so smooth with his delivery. I do have a question. At timestamp: 40:37 how do we change to our amazon vpc directory? I have tried and tried to get there but i am stuck. Help! lol

[@nathanroche7722]

Did anybody work this out? because i'm sat headbutting my desk....

[@keithmckai5239]

@@nathanroche7722 he is using the aws cli through his terminal. just cd'd into that directory.

[@loyalendeavor7991]

If the vpc is priv, then why did you set an igw to it therefore making it accessible from the internet?

[@bowang8387]

Very Very good!

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[@omermindivanli2981]

Awesome!

[@dynamixthunder724]

thanku u are helping poor people like me

[@ravindumanawa6143]

Can you tell that what are the certification should we do as a web and java developer

[@vinaysai5253]

Thanks

[@superpcstation]

My exam is in two days (19th OCT 2021). The timing couldn't have been better.

[@sophiaugiagbe1776]

hello how was your exam?

[@superpcstation]

@@sophiaugiagbe1776 passed, thank you. Are you also taking up the exam?

[@MuhammadAbbas-lc2px]

Nice!

[@LarryP248]

This is enlightening. I read a similar book that was a paradigm shift. "AWS Unleashed: Mastering Amazon Web Services for Software Engineers" by Harrison Quill

[@hahalaugh5700]

What's the guidelines and best practices between choosing VPC peering vs site-to-site VPN?

[@Kumar_prap]

In the private IP address range, you have mentioned 172.32.x.x which is actually a public address routable over the internet. Please confirm whether any recent changes come in Private and public IP address ranges?

[@pradeepkumar-ew1ze]

For class A, why the total networks is 126 and not 245?

[@peacefuldeityspath]

Awesome! :D

[@wyattblake4126]

I was spending money on Udemy, no longer, signed up for the monthly program!

[@hassankraken7685]

Thx

[@kallol8669]

great lecture. one question though. whats the link for the tool @26:08

[@dr.antoniodeoliveirasalaza4640]

Cool!

[@iloveislam7315]

wow!

[@drpartyy3799]

love it

[@TPRighteous]

what happen to Neal Davis's other course AWS for Begginners ? Looks like it was taken down today...I was halfway through the course.

[@seetsamolapo5600]

- VPNs because of using the public internet are subject to it's bandwidth constraints and latency issues that arise - DX is a private connection into AWS - not shared, not public - In the DX location, AWS has an AWS cage - rack where they have their own equipment. Then there's the Customer or Partners cage - your rack with own equipment or rented from a partner - Both of these cages will have a router - AWS DX router and Customer DX router, respectively

[@KorkyKathman]

Hi Neal - Can you explain how you get the number of networks available for a range of IPv4 addresses like CIDR, Class A, B and C? I get how you get the number of usable addresses per network.

[@vinothamarnath347]

Class A networks do not use the left most bit in the 1st octet. It's always fixed with a value of 0. Therefore the possible networks available in Class A network is 2 to the power 7 i.e., 128 - 2 (all 0s would go for the network ID and all 1s would be used for the broadcast) i.e., 126 valid Class A networks. Each network has 2 to the power 24 i.e., 16,777,216 - 2 (all 0s would go for the network ID and all 1s would be used for the broadcast) i.e., 16,777,214 valid Host IP address for each Class A network. Class B networks do not use the left most 2 bits in the 1st octet. It's always fixed with a value of 10. Therefore the possible networks available in Class A network is 2 to the power 14 i.e., 16,384 - 2 (all 0s would go for the network ID and all 1s would be used for the broadcast) i.e., 16,382 valid Class B networks. Each network has 2 to the power 16 i.e., 65,536 - 2 (all 0s would go for the network ID and all 1s would be used for the broadcast) i.e., 65,534 valid Host IP address for each Class B network. Class C networks do not use the left most 3 bits in the 1st octet. It's always fixed with a value of 110. Therefore the possible networks available in Class A network is 2 to the power 21 i.e., 2,097,152 - 2 (all 0s would go for the network ID and all 1s would be used for the broadcast) i.e., 2,097,150 valid Class C networks. Each network has 2 to the power 8 i.e., 256 - 2 (all 0s would go for the network ID and all 1s would be used for the broadcast) i.e., 254 valid Host IP address for each Class C network. Please refer to www.computernetworkingnotes.com/networking-tutorials/ip-address-classes-explained-with-examples.html for these details.

[@arturo9790]

Assuming you figured it out by now, this was confusing tf out of me, but basically in each octet for each class you can't use the first bit, so that divides the networks capacity by 2

[@saumiyasomanathan2537]

​@arturo9790 can I connect to you , to understand this part.

[@Xzs29]

Everything is superb, but speed of the explanation can be reduced a bit as it would be harder for beginner to grasp where things are getting connected or peered etc

[@KorkyKathman]

At the 25:22 mark you begin to talk about a tool for helping with CIDR block creation. Can you provide a link to that tool?

[@user-tl1pc7ur8o]

Hello Neal, My I know the tool, that you're using for subnetting, Thank you so much!

[@dareakintade4770]

How do you locate the Amzon VPC directory to enable you copy the file name?

[@VeeraviswasKCECS]

Did u find the attachment...file name

[@yf2239]

Has anyone got the link to the IPv4 Subnet creator tool Neal talked about at 0:25:33 of the training please?

[@ricdingal8599]

Hi Neal this is helpful in my job as a reference video, What is the network tool you used in the subnetting?

[@sijanshrestha7278]

The switching back and forth between production and neal account, how to do it? sorry got lost on this part, I am a begineer. Any suggestion or help on what document to look for. I tried to search and found Switch Role but i think it is to assume role for instances :D

[@ankurwalia6473]

This maybe late, but I use incognito mode to use another account at the same time. I think some plug-ins or chrome's PROFILE option can also be used.