Cloud architects looking to leverage the cloud for their inter-region architectures can benefit from utilizing the services provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). This blog will cover the basics of networking, VPC, Cloud WAN, Transit Gateway, and VPC peering and explain how they can be used to successfully set up an inter-region architecture.
Using AWS for inter-region architectures can provide many benefits such as lower costs, improved scalability, and increased availability and reliability. To understand how to make use of these benefits, it is important to have a basic understanding of networking components and concepts. The main component of a network is the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) which provides a secure and isolated environment within the cloud where resources can be hosted. A VPC consists of subnets, route tables, network gateways, security groups, and other elements that are used to set up and manage a network.