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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) lets users provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where they can launch AWS resources in a virtual network. Users have control over the virtual networking environment, including selection of one's IP address range, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and network gateways. Users can use both IPv4 and IPv6 in the VPC for secure and easy access to resources and applications.

    $0.05

    per month per NAT gateway

    AWS CloudFormation

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AAWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators a way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in a predictable fashion. Use AWS CloudFormation’s sample templates or create templates to describe the AWS resources, and any associated dependencies or runtime parameters, required to run an application. Users don’t need to figure out the order for provisioning AWS services or the subtleties of making those dependencies work.…

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    Pricing
    Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)AWS CloudFormation
    Editions & Modules
    IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    $0.00027 per active IP address managed by IPAM
    Hourly
    Traffic Monitoring
    $0.015 per ENI ($/hour)
    Hourly
    NAT Gateway
    $0.045 per NAT gateway
    Hourly
    Standard
    Free
    Hourly
    Free Tier - 1,000 Handler Operations per Month per Account
    $0.00
    Handler Operation
    $0.0009
    per handler operation
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)AWS CloudFormation
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsThere is no additional charge for creating and using an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) itself, you can pay for optional VPC capabilities with usage-based charges. AWS provides features and services that give you the ability to customize control, connectivity, monitoring, and security for your Amazon VPC.There is no additional charge for using AWS CloudFormation with resource providers in the following namespaces: AWS::*, Alexa::*, and Custom::*. In this case you pay for AWS resources (such as Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancing load balancers, etc.) created using AWS CloudFormation as if you created them manually. You only pay for what you use, as you use it; there are no minimum fees and no required upfront commitments. When you use resource providers with AWS CloudFormation outside the namespaces mentioned above, you incur charges per handler operation. Handler operations are create, update, delete, read, or list actions on a resource.
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    Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)AWS CloudFormation
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    Amazon AWS
    Chose Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
    We utilize both AWS and Azure resources for our cloud deployments. The deployment of resources initially was smoother through AWS VPC due to their powerful CLI and Powershell cmdlets. In the past couple of years, the differences between some of the features of AWS VPC and Azure …
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    Features
    Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)AWS CloudFormation
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and AWS CloudFormation
    Feature
    Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    1% below category average
    AWS CloudFormation
    -
    Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime7.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling8.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates8.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring tools9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating system support5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security controls9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
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    User Testimonials
    Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)AWS CloudFormation
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    If you are going to deploy within AWS, you need to know how to leverage VPCs. VPCs have several items you must configure for them to be usable and to even link one VPC to another. If you are only going to deploy a few resources or use some of the default configurations, you still need to have working knowledge of how a VPC functions. If you are used to working with VLANs and the ideology behind those, that is the best direct reference to how a VPC can be described, but with additional layers on top of that with route tables, internet gateways, etc.
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    AWS CloudFormation is well suited for scenarios where all of your resources need to be provisioned on AWS but it is not suited for hybrid cloud deployments. It's very easy for someone new to learn. The level of customization offered as part of the template specifically for AWS services is great. There is also a UI tool where we can drag and drop the services we want and it generates an yaml file which is very easy to use. The visibility of stacks and its resources and one place where we can track and identify the issues in deployment is great.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Pricing model & On demand service commitment.
    • Well, architectural infrastructure development processing before spending the money.
    • AWS VPC are providing hassle-free using with all others services from AWS very easily.
    • AWS business support is very helpful & [gives] the right direction according to client’s situations.
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    Amazon AWS
    • IaC, transactional on top of that
    • Support for "mainstream" general programming languages
    • Sharable IaC "snippets" that can setup standardized environments for individuals quickly
    • OOP techniques are available thanks to OOP languages
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • The biggest issue with VPC networks is knowing how you can leverage VPC endpoints to ensure your resources within the VPC are not reaching out over the Internet to get to AWS services such as S3 and others.
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    Amazon AWS
    • Error Description upon Failure Needs to be Improved.
    • Slow to create, delete or update.
    • Need to delete resources manually. It can ask before starting deletion whether to skip those resources or delete them.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
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    Amazon AWS
    It's easy enough to get a shared template & apply it. You don't even have to download-then-upload or copy-and-paste, a publicly-accessible url works.
    Diving deeper, it has enough powerful capabilities to make the life of a platform / DevOps engineer bearable.
    However, you need equally deep knowledge to troubleshoot issues, when they inevitably pop up. This is the same for all IaC technologies, as they are additional abstraction layers on top of the native API provided by the cloud providers.
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    Amazon AWS
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • AWS VPCs are actively used for following various compliance and regulatory needs such as network separation for PCI DSS. The ability to keep resources and access to those resources controlled through the initial steps of creating VPCs has helped tremendously.
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    Amazon AWS
    • + We can standup a VPC in minutes
    • - It took a lot of inital time to set up
    • + With logging/rollback, made testing much easier.
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