intermediate~2h
EC2 Security Groups & Networking
How traffic to and from an EC2 instance is controlled — Security Groups, public vs private IPs, and the VPC context an instance lives in.
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🎓 Learning objectives
- •Explain how Security Groups differ from a traditional firewall (stateful vs stateless)
- •Configure a Security Group that follows least-privilege networking
- •Explain the difference between a public IP, private IP, and Elastic IP
- •Explain why placing a database in a private subnet, not a public one, matters
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