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What is a Virtual Private Cloud?
How can one host within a VPC any services that need to be public?
- By creating a subnet that allows public access.
What are examples of services that would live in the publicly-accessible part of the VPC? The privately-accessible part?
- Web Servers, Load Balancers, API Gateways, Bastion Hosts, DNS Servers, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs, Publicly-accessible Databases, Public-facing, Applications, FTP or File Servers, Publicly-hosted APIs
What are the trade-offs of using a VPC vs traditional infrastructure?
Some of the benefits of VPC vs traditional infrastructure are scalability, self-service, broad access, and measurable.
References
https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/cloud/what-is-a-virtual-private-cloud/