• An on-demand configurable pool of shared computing resources allocated within a public cloud environment, providing a certain level of isolation between the different organizations using the resources. The isolation between one VPC organization and all other users of the same cloud (other VPC organizations as well as other public cloud users) is usually achieved through allocation of a private IP subnet and a virtual communication construct (such as a VLAN or a set of encrypted communication channels) per user. In a VPC, the respective isolation is accompanied with a VPN function that secures remote access of the organization to VPC resources. A VPC is most commonly used in the context of cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS). ← Wikipedia

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