AWS VPC: Solving IP Conflicts and Security Issues
2025-06-04

This article tells the story of the birth of Amazon's Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Early AWS instances shared a single network, leading to IP address conflicts and security vulnerabilities, hindering enterprise migration. To solve this, AWS engineers invented VPC, which uses a mapping service to provide each customer with an isolated private network, addressing IP conflicts and security risks, enabling companies to safely migrate to the AWS cloud platform.
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