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Dr. Logan Song
Dr. Logan Song
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Dr. Logan Song

Dr. Logan Song is the enterprise cloud director and chief cloud architect at Dito. With 25+ years of professional experience, Dr. Song is highly skilled in enterprise information technologies, specializing in cloud computing and machine learning. He is a Google Cloud-certified professional solution architect and machine learning engineer, an AWS-certified professional solution architect and machine learning specialist, and a Microsoft-certified Azure solution architect expert. Dr. Song holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, an MS in computer science, and an ME in management engineering. Currently, he is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, teaching cloud computing and machine learning courses.
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Understanding Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

A VPC is a network in the Amazon cloud. With Amazon VPC, you can assign custom IP address ranges, create subnets, and configure route tables, network gateways, and security settings. You can launch instances in a specified subnet of a VPC. By default, you can create five VPCs per AWS account per region, and you can increase this default quota by contacting Amazon cloud support. AWS VPC provides several benefits over traditional data center-based network designs, including the following:

  • High availability: Amazon VPC is software based. Within a VPC, the routers are virtual and provide high availability. VPCs are regional in AWS and thus a VPC can span multiple AZs, with each subnet mapping to an AZ.
  • Flexibility: Amazon VPC provides the flexibility to design and build your network topology to meet your specific business and technical requirements. With Amazon VPC, you select the IP address range for VPCs and subnets, configure route...
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Dr. Logan Song

Dr. Logan Song is the enterprise cloud director and chief cloud architect at Dito. With 25+ years of professional experience, Dr. Song is highly skilled in enterprise information technologies, specializing in cloud computing and machine learning. He is a Google Cloud-certified professional solution architect and machine learning engineer, an AWS-certified professional solution architect and machine learning specialist, and a Microsoft-certified Azure solution architect expert. Dr. Song holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, an MS in computer science, and an ME in management engineering. Currently, he is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, teaching cloud computing and machine learning courses.
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