I'm used to AWS pricing but I'm still a little fuzzy on how AWS VPC pricing works.
It is $0.05 per VPN Connection-hour. But in this context what is a "VPN connection?" Do you literally just set up your cloud for "free" (aside from paying for instances, etc) and then only pay $0.05 for every hour you spend connected to the private cloud externally?
Does the VPC have any external visibility aside from the VPN connections? And if it does, what is stopping you just setting up your own VPN server and bypassing the $0.05/hour rate?
> Does the VPC have any external visibility aside from the VPN connections? And if it does, what is stopping you just setting up your own VPN server and bypassing the $0.05/hour rate?
Some do that, but the ~$30/month you're saving is likely eaten up by the cost of setting up and managing it and the software VPN instance you have to run.
VPC instance pricing is the same as EC2 pricing. The VPN pricing is if you want to setup a VPN between your office (or some other location) and your VPC.
It is $0.05 per VPN Connection-hour. But in this context what is a "VPN connection?" Do you literally just set up your cloud for "free" (aside from paying for instances, etc) and then only pay $0.05 for every hour you spend connected to the private cloud externally?
Does the VPC have any external visibility aside from the VPN connections? And if it does, what is stopping you just setting up your own VPN server and bypassing the $0.05/hour rate?