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In the past, each Cornell AWS customer that required access to the private Cornell network in AWS received their own Cornell Standard VPC that provided an AWS VPC for their exclusive use. In contrast, the shared Cornell AWS VPC described in this document provides similar network connectivity in a set of AWS subnets shared among multiple Cornell AWS customers.

The initial deployment of the Shared VPC will supply only private subnets to opted-in Cornell AWS accounts. This means that the Shared VPC cannot be used to host a public web site or public APIs, for example.

Benefits of Using the Shared VPC

Cornell AWS customers that opt-in to use the Shared VPC will experience the following benefits:

• Privileged Network Accessnetwork access
  • Resources using the Shared VPC are assigned private IP addresses from the private Cornell network. As such, they reside on the Cornell network and potentially can reach other resources on the Cornell network.
•  Ease
  • The Shared VPC can be used without the need to setup and manage your own VPC.
  • The CIT Cloud Team manages manages the subnets, network ACLs, and Route Tables in the Shared VPC. Customers manage the Security Groups applied to their EC2 instances and other resources deployed in the Shared VPC.
• Cheaper
  • Each Cornell Standard VPC contains at least one NAT Gateway, which typically costs about $1/day to run. In contrast, NAT Gateways deployed in the Shared VPC are managed and paid for by CIT.
  • VPC Flow Logs in the Shared VPC are paid for by CIT.
• Increased resiliency
  • Customers using the Shared VPC have access to subnets in all of the Availability Zones in the us-east-1 AWS Region. In contrast, the Cornell Standard VPC is typically deployed only to two Availability Zones.
  • Each private subnet in the Shared VPC utilizes a NAT Gateway local to the Availability Zone where the subnet is deployed. In contrast, private subnets in the Cornell Standard VPC typically utilize a single NAT Gateway in a single Availability Zone.
• Availability Zone matching
  • Since the Shared VPC offers access to all Availability Zones in us-east-1, customers have the option to deploy resources in specific AZs if they are trying to deploy resources in the same AZs as deployed by partners or vendors.

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