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VPC

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

abbreviationCommon term

In software engineering, VPC means: Short for virtual private cloud: your own isolated private network inside a public cloud, where you control IP ranges, subnets, routing and access.

In Turkish: sanal özel bulut, sanal özel ağ, VPC

How it is used

Said letter by letter, 'V-P-C'. AWS and Google Cloud use this name; Azure calls it a virtual network (VNet). Teams create VPCs, split them into subnets and connect them with peering or VPN.

Example sentences

  1. The database sits in a private part of the VPC and can't be reached from the internet.

  2. We need VPC peering so the analytics account can read from the production database.

Common collocations

  • create a VPC
  • VPC peering
  • inside the VPC
  • default VPC
  • subnetA smaller range of IP addresses inside a larger network such as a VPC, used to group resources and control which of them can reach the internet.
  • security groupA virtual firewall in the cloud with rules that say which network traffic, by port and source, may reach or leave a server or other resource.
  • DNSDomain Name System: the internet's directory that translates domain names like example.com into the IP addresses of servers.
  • hybrid cloudA setup that combines a company's own on-premises systems or private cloud with a public cloud provider, with the two connected and working together.

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