When to use an AWS S3 VPC endpoint
What is an S3 VPC endpoint? To understand what an S3 VPC endpoint is, we first need to know what problem it solves. Imagine we want to get access to S3 from an AWS resource. In the example below, we have an EC2 instance that needs to copy a file from an S3 bucket: This works, because: the EC2 instance is in a public subnet, so has access to the internet therefore the EC2 instance can reach the AWS S3 URL to copy the file from the S3 bucket Public subnets A public subnet is simply one that has a route to the internet....