Alibaba Virtual Private Cloud is a foundational cloud offering that allows you to create private networks to host your cloud infrastructure. A VPC is a configurable base layer tool that underpins almost every other commonly used cloud service.
Being able to create private networks in the cloud enables you to control access to your cloud resources and implement best practice network security principles.
In this hands-on lab, you will use the Alibaba Cloud management console to create and configure a new VPC.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this beginner-level lab, you will be able to:
- Navigate to the Alibaba Cloud VPC console
- Create and configure a new Alibaba Cloud VPC
- Inspect and observe the configuration of your VPC
Intended Audience
- Cloud Architects
- Network Architects
- DevOps Engineers
Prerequisites
Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:
- Virtual Private Cloud concepts from other cloud vendors
- Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service networking
The following AWS course and Alibaba Cloud lecture can be used to fulfill the prerequisites:
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Andrew is a Labs Developer with previous experience in the Internet Service Provider, Audio Streaming, and CryptoCurrency industries. He has also been a DevOps Engineer and enjoys working with CI/CD and Kubernetes.
He holds multiple AWS certifications including Solutions Architect Associate and Professional.