In this chapter, we are going to be concentrating on launching an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC); this is the networking layer which will house the compute and other Amazon services we will be launching in the next chapter.
An overview of the VPC our playbook is going to launch is as follows:
As you can see, we are going to be launching our VPC into the EU-West #1 (Ireland) region; we will be spanning all three availability zones for our EC2 instances and also the Application Elastic Load Balancer. We will only be using two availability zones for our Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS
