Summary
This classification determines network access in terms of whether a subnet can communicate with the internet or not.
- diagram
- private -internal network access
- instances only able to talk to each other in the same VPC
- no public visible IP addresses so incoming requests can’t reach them
- related: IP Ranges (CIDR Blocks)
- public - internal network access + internet access
- must have an internet gateway
- You can’t really control that you want specific requests