NOTE – A new version of the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Network Administrator Guide is available at This is official Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Amazon Virtual Private Cloud enables you to create a virtual network topology—including subnets and routing—for your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) resources. This guide is only for Amazon VPC customers who plan to use an IPsec hardware VPN with their VPC. This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it online or in PDF format at