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Discussion on: Can someone #explainlikeimfive the concept of virtual private cloud ?

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Vidisha Parab

Many thanks for your reply ! :)) But I have difficulty in understanding how is this different from having a public cloud ? If we choose to have our instances in the public cloud, they come with their own isolation from other different tenants. Our data , instances are secured from the other customers who share resources by the same cloud provider. I will read up on the link which you have provided ! :D Thanks again.

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Nested Software • Edited

I believe the distinction is simply that with vpc, you can customize the network (ip address range, subnets etc). Again, it is meant to feel as though you have your own network infrastructure in house or hosted privately at a data centre. You can even separate out publicly-facing servers, just as you would if this was your own IT infrastructure. I think the amazon vpc page may be helpful for reference: aws.amazon.com/vpc/.

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Vidisha Parab

Great ! I will go through the reference. Thank you :))