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# What is a VPC
VPC = Virtual Privat Cloud
* This is an instance that can be deployed to a region over multiple availability zones
* It kind of acts like a private network that contains multiple subnets
* The great thing about it is that it is private and secure
* The resources can communicate between subnets but they do not communicate outside of the subnet
* To be able to serve the app to the internet (let's say it's a webapp) we can add the private subnets `10.0.1.0/24` and `10.0.4.0/24` to a `internet gateway`
* The now public subnets with the load balancer resources are reachable from the internet but they are still able to communicate with the other subnets in the VPC
#### Simple infrastructure for a basic secure app:
* Create subnet that is connected to a Internet gateway and has something like Nginx deployed to it
* Create another subnet where you would add the webapps
* Create another subnet where you would add the databases
* Note that all the deployed resources communicate with each other
#### So how would traffic go?
* Our internet gateway allows HTTPS connections on port 443 to server `10.0.1.10` which hosts Nginx
Nginx Server --> Forward traffic to webapp --> webapp connects to database, also processes the request and returns data to Nginx --> Nginx servers the result to the end user
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