# VPC

Concept · [Cloud, hosting and security](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/cloud)

Also called: virtual private cloud, private network, VPCs, private subnet

Virtual private cloud. A private, walled-off network inside a [cloud provider](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/cloud-provider) where a company runs its [servers](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/server), shielded from the public internet.

**For example:** An [enterprise](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/b2b-b2c) customer asks that the AI tool run inside its own VPC so its data never crosses the public internet.

## Connects to (4)

- [Cloud provider](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/cloud-provider): A company that rents out computing services, such as servers, storage and databases, over the internet and on demand.
- [Encryption](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/encryption): Scrambling data with a key so only someone with the right key can read it.
- [On-premises](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/on-premises): Running software on servers an organization owns and keeps in its own building or data center, instead of in the cloud.
- [Data privacy](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/data-privacy): How a company collects, uses, stores and shares information about people.

Map view: https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/vpc