Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Reviews

Name: Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4.5 (33 reviews)

4.5 out of 5

33 reviews
96% willing to recommend

What is Amazon Virtual Private Cloud?

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define. You have complete control over your virtual networking environment, including selection of your own IP address range, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and network gateways. You can use both IPv4 and IPv6 in your VPC for secure and easy access to resources and applications.

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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

January 2025

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MriduBoruah

Associate Director at Baxter International Inc.

We have hosted 400 applications with the help of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud The product’s most valuable feature is allowing us to control access for specific workloads or traffic within a particular region. The product is restricted to a particular region. They should provide a global…

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Raghu Gopal

Senior Software Engineer - Devops at Saama

I like the VPC peering concept for secure connectivity between VPCs. It's very easy to set up network ACLs and security groups in a VPC. When creating a security group, we specify the subnets, protocols, and any port restrictions. We need rules for both inbound and outbound traffic. This setup lets us define which public IPs can access the resources within our security group. Moreover, it is easy to integrate a VPC with other AWS services.When creating a security group, we mainly need subnet details and information about potential vulnerabilities. We need to configure both inbound and outbound rules to properly secure our VPC. We can easily configure subnets within the VPC. Subnets work with IP addresses for identification. So, for example, I'm using a security group with HTTP and HTTPS protocols. In those protocols, we need to set up public and private IP addresses. To specify details and connections between the subnet and security group, we'd likely use a route table. These are the kinds of things we consider when working on a solution.

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M.Umar Farooq

Senior Devops Engineer at Nisum

In Amazon VPC, there's room for improvement. For example, when we create security groups, I think we should be able to restrict outgoing traffic to secured websites. I know there's a method to restrict that, but we should also be able to design outgoing traffic restrictions at the system level. We should use that to deny ports instead of relying solely on network access controls at the subnet level. Another thing is that I think there should be restrictions within the security group itself, not just for the whole subnet. For instance, when we allow traffic into a specific EC2 instance within a security group, that's only allowing incoming traffic. It doesn't control outgoing traffic. Specific ports should not be allowed to export traffic outside, preventing anyone from getting that traffic. For example, if the port is allowed, it shouldn't allow traffic on port 82 or whatever specific port it is. It needs to control outgoing traffic.

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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud mindshare

As of January 2025, the mindshare of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud in the Compute Service category stands at 0.3%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"I like that within the same AWS account, you can have different scenarios and workloads. You can isolate workloads using different VPCs, reducing the exposure of critical services."
"For network security, Network Access Control Lists (NACLs). They work very well. For example, instead of leaving a resource open to the world with something like 0.0.0.0/0, we can use NACLs to be much more specific with our network traffic rules. It adds an important security layer to our infrastructure."
"It has been a stable product. I haven't seen any bugs so far. It's been good and reliable."

Room for Improvement

"I would like to see an improvement in the process of peering multiple VPCs."
"There is always room for improvement. It can be in support."
"In Amazon VPC, there's room for improvement. For example, when we create security groups, I think we should be able to restrict outgoing traffic to secured websites. I know there's a method to restrict that, but we should also be able to design outgoing traffic restrictions at the system level. We should use that to deny ports instead of relying solely on network access controls at the subnet level."

Pricing

"Amazon VPC is generally affordable. There might be costs if you need to reserve specific IPs. Otherwise, it's cheap."
"Compared to the other products in the market, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud is available at a low price."
"The product is expensive."

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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud was previously known as Amazon VPC.

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