What is Amazon VPC?

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define. You have complete control over your virtual networking environment including selection of IP address range, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and network gateways. VPC provides advanced security features including security groups and network access control lists. You can create a hardware VPN connection between your corporate datacenter and VPC, enabling you to extend your existing infrastructure into the cloud.