VPC has been around for some time, and it was around back when I started work on my previous infrastructure, but it was an extra feature. At the time, you defaulted to what Amazon now calls “EC2 Classic”, which meant you essentially were sharing an internal IP space with everyone else on EC2. With VPC, you can define different subnets, including ones that have only non-Internet-routable RFC1918 IP addresses.
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