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VPC Flow Logs

  • Capture information about IP traffic going into your interfaces:
    • VPC Flow Logs
    • Subnet Flow Logs
    • Elastic Network Interface Flow Logs
  • Helps to monitor & troubleshoot connectivity issues. Example:
    • Subnets to internet
    • Subnets to subnets
    • Internet to subnets
  • Captures network information from AWS managed interfaces too: Elastic Load Balancers, ElastiCache, RDS, Aurora, etc...
  • VPC Flow logs data can go to S3, CloudWatch Logs, and Amazon Data Firehose

VPC Peering

VPC Peering

  • Connect two VPC, privately using AWS' network
  • Make them behave as if they were in the same network
  • Must not have overlapping CIDR (IP address range)
  • VPC Peering connection is not transitive (must be established for each VPC that need to communicate with one another)