How to: VPC Basics
-	📒 [Homepage](https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/) ∙ [User guide](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide) ∙ [FAQ](https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/faqs/) ∙ [Security groups](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-network-security.html) ∙ [Pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/pricing/)
-	**VPC** (Virtual Private Cloud) is the virtualized networking layer of your AWS systems.
-	Most AWS users should have a basic understanding of VPC concepts, but few need to get into all the details. VPC configurations can be trivial or extremely complex, depending on the extent of your network and security needs.
-	All modern AWS accounts (those created [after 2013-12-04](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-vpc.html)) are “EC2-VPC” accounts that support VPCs, and all instances will be in a default VPC. Older accounts may still be using “EC2-Classic” mode. Some features don’t work without VPCs, so you probably will want to [migrate](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/vpc-migrate.html).

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