From the course: VPC Networking on AWS: Configuration, Security, and Connectivity

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Review subnet and route table architecture

Review subnet and route table architecture

- [Instructor] In this demo, we're going to look at the arrangement between subnets and route tables. They're associated, they work together. You can't have a subnet without an associated route table at AWS. So let's take a look at the VPCs we have in the console, and we have a couple of them. We have the dev and the production network and the default VPC. Let's start with the Dev VPC network and look at the subnets contained in that particular network. We can see that there is a few subnets there, public and private. There's a public highlighted. Let's follow that thread and click on that subnet ID. That subnet is associated with this particular route table. If we take a look at what's in this route table clicking the ID, we're going to find that there is a path to the internet gateway. It's a public subnet, therefore it must have an assigned internet gateway. There's also a local path because that's present in every single route table, custom or default, in the AWS network…

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