Actually, there's a lot more. Despite the amount of code in this recipe, we've really only covered the basics of what's possible with VPCs and networking in AWS. Here are some of the main VPC topics you'll encounter as you progress with your VPC usage:
- Direct Connect: This is a method of connecting your DC to your VPC using a private, dedicated pipe. Doing this often provides better network performance, and may also be cheaper than a VPN connection over the Internet.
- Virtual Private Gateway (VPN): You can configure your VPC to connect to your corporate DC over the Internet via VPN. This requires that you run supported VPN hardware in your DC.
- IPv6 support was added recently. We've left it out to keep things simple.
- VPC endpoints ...
