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Work with a Custom VPC

Explore how to design and manage a custom Virtual Private Cloud on AWS. Learn to choose CIDR blocks, configure tenancy, and control network traffic. Practice creating, describing, and deleting custom VPCs using the AWS CLI to build secure, tailored cloud networks.

Custom or nondefault VPCs are networks we create and administer based on our requirements. They are isolated networks that don’t permit inbound or outbound traffic, unless we set explicit network configurations according to our requirements.

Contrary to the default VPC, which is always created with the same network configuration, a custom VPC give us the choice to design a VPC with our own network configuration.

Determining VPC CIDR

The first question to be answered before creating a custom VPC is with what network CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing should the VPC be formed. To put it another way, how many IP addresses should our VPC have?

First, we need to determine the number of IP ...