What are AWS VPC Endpoints?
An AWS VPC endpoint is a service offered by AWS VPC, which lets customers privately connect to supported AWS services and VPC endpoint services powered by AWS PrivateLink, and by using VPC Endpoints we don’t require public IP addresses for Amazon VPC instances to communicate with the resources of the service, and this network traffic between an Amazon VPC and an AWS service does not leave the Amazon network, which is our exact requirement.
VPC endpoints are virtual devices. They are horizontally scaled, redundant, and highly available Amazon VPC components that allow communication between instances in an Amazon VPC and services without imposing availability risks or bandwidth constraints on network traffic.
AWS VPC Endpoint
Deploying your application in the AWS VPC which doesn’t have an internet connection by default, and the application is required to communicate with S3 service for reading the files and writing the files, in this scenario to make the application communicate with S3, we need a route for public internet using either NAT Gateway, Internet Gateway, or AWS Direct Connect. What if you don’t want to expose any requests being made inside this application to go through the internet?, here comes the concept of VPC Endpoints.
Table of Content
- What are AWS VPC Endpoints?
- AWS VPC Endpoints Architecture
- Types of VPC Endpoints
- What are shared Subnets?
- How to Create AWS VPC Endpoints? A Step-By-Step Guide
- What Are Service Providers?
- What Are Service Consumers?
- What are AWS PrivateLink Connections?
- What are Private Hosted Zones?
- AWS VPC Services List
- AWS VPC Endpoint Pricing
- AWS VPC Endpoint vs Endpoint Service
- Examples of AWS VPC Endpoint
- AWS VPC EndPoint – FAQs