VPC Peering

Noun · Development

Definitions

  1. A networking connection between two Virtual Private Clouds that enables private IP communication without traversing the public internet. Traffic stays on the cloud provider's backbone network. Non-transitive by default — if VPC-A peers with VPC-B and VPC-B peers with VPC-C, A cannot reach C.

    In plain English: Connecting two private cloud networks together so they can talk directly without going through the public internet.

    Example: "Set up VPC peering between the production and monitoring VPCs so Prometheus can scrape metrics over private IPs."

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