This is not a security course, but you should be able to understand that different parts of your system are susceptible to different types of attacks. The more components you configure with security in mind: the less likely you are to become a victim of an attack.

The general idea of '''cloud''' is that your servers and services are not physically located on the premises of your business, but somewhere else. Typically wherever you can rent cheaper computers. Cloud providers have the advantage of economies of scale and the great flexibility of resource assignment. When you're not using some component: someone else will pay to use it. So hardware isn't sitting idle getting old and wasting electricity.

If your software uses any resources from outside your AWS VPC: those will also connect via the Internet Gateway.

* VPCs, subnets