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In this next section, you’ll learn the basics of public and internal IP addresses

in the
cloud.
A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is composed of subnetworks, or subnets, and each
subnet
must be configured with a private IP CIDR address.
CIDR stands for Classless Inter-domain Routing.
The CIDR range will determine what internal IP addresses will be used by virtual
machines
in the subnet.
Internal IP addresses are only used for communication within the VPC and cannot be
routed to the
internet.
Each octet in an IP address is represented by 8 binary bits.
So a typical IPV4 address is 32-bits long.
The number at the end of the range determines how many bits will be static or
frozen.
This number determines how many IP addresses are available with a CIDR address.
The CIDR range determines how many IP addresses are available.
A /16 range will provide 65,536 available IP addresses.
Every time you add “1” to the last number, the number of available IP addresses is
cut
in half.
So, what’s the difference between public and internal IP addresses?
Public, or external IP addresses can be ephemeral or reserved.
They are assigned from a pool of IP addresses associated with the region.
If you allocate a reserved IP address but don't attach it to a virtual machine, you
will be billed for the IP address.
Virtual machines are unaware of their public IP address, which means that if you
look at
the operating system network configuration, the virtual machine will only display
the
internal IP address.
Private, or internal IP addresses, however, are allocated to VMs by a Dynamic Host
Configuration
Protocol (DHCP) service.
The lease for the IPs is renewed every 24 hours.
The name of the virtual machine is the hostname, and the hostname will be
associated with the
internal IP address through a network-scoped DNS service.

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