How IP Addressing Works in AWS | Public, Private, Elastic, CIDR Notation | AWS for Beginners

In a prior video ( • Amazon/AWS VPC (Virtua... ), I introduced you to the basics of the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) in AWS. But what’s with all those different IP addresses (Private, Public, Elastic), and how does CIDR notation work?
In this video, I’ll explain in simple terms how it all works. We’ll see the differences between the types of IP addresses, and then get into details of CIDR notation (subnet masks and RFC 1918 ranges) and how that all works.
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00:00 - What the heck are private IP addresses, public IPs, Elastic IPs and CIDR notation?
00:38 - The differences between IP addresses, for beginners
03:29 - The anatomy of an IP address and binary octets
05:26 - How CIDR notation works, with examples
07:29 - CIDR subnet mask quick reference table
08:23 - A handy site to bookmark: cidr.xyz
09:15 - RFC 1918 private ranges

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Great Video! How do you decide on what CIDR range to start with when you create a new VPC? Also, I think normally a company designs several VPCs under one account (i.e production, test, development, etc.), How do you allocate CIDR for each?

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Hi moe! 👋 To pick a range, you'll want to start with something from the RFC 1918 (private) range, such as "10..." or "172..." (see around 09:40 in the video for more about this). And then the subnet mask (the "slash" number) depends on how many IP addresses you need. A "10.0.0.0/16" for example, would give you 65,536 addresses (if you need fewer than that, you could go with a larger number, like /24, which would give you 256 addresses). So really depends on the size of the network you need. As far as how many VPCs to create, it's complicated. 😊 This article probably does a better job than I can: www.linkedin.com/pulse/aws-vpc-best-practice-journal-eric-l/. You could also look into multi-accounts (one for prod, dev, test, etc.), working with Control Tower, rather than multiple VPCs. Hope that helps get you started!

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Excellent! Is the organization size and subnet mask based on total number of employees or the number of servers the company will have in cloud? It seems if you have 500 servers you would have to use a subnet mask to allocate 65,536 IPs since that is the next number available after 256 IPs.

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the sunet mast max /16 and min /28 can be used while creating a vpc.

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