From the course: Cloud Security and Audit Fundamentals: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud
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Security basics in virtual networks
From the course: Cloud Security and Audit Fundamentals: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud
Security basics in virtual networks
- [Instructor] Cloud systems use virtual networks to enable communications between components inside a cloud. A virtual network is a networking system that emulates a physical network by combining the hardware and software network resources into a single entity. A virtual network contains network resources and capabilities, including firewalls, virtual routers, load balances, and network management. Virtual network is divided into subnetworks, also known as subnets. Most cloud services are attached to a subnet. These subnets can be either private or public. Public subnets, as the name suggests, accessible over the public internet. Private subnets should be used for cloud services that don't need public access, while public subnets should only be used for services that need to be publicly accessible over the internet, such as web servers. While the cloud service providers have embedded some network security controls into…
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