What is Cloud Networking?
Cloud Networking
Overview
Cloud virtual networks provide addressing, subnets, routing and security controls on provider infrastructure. Public and private access depend on route tables and policy, not a subnet name. Security groups, network ACLs and service endpoints have provider-specific semantics.
Protocol stages
- 1Virtual network
- 2Subnet
- 3Route table
- 4Security control
- 5Service
Interactive exercise
Knowledge check
A subnet is named private but has a direct internet-gateway route and public addresses. Is the name sufficient to keep instances private?
Educational model — not real hardware, traffic or official certification.