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		ceejayoz on Jan 16, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Networking on AWS (2018) A VPC with a public subnet that's locked down largely via security groups is probably fine for a project that can't justify a $35/month spend. edit: Apparently not. See below, my mistake.

athrun on Jan 16, 2019 [–]

It's counter intuitive but attaching a VPC Lambda to a public VPC subnet will not give it access to the internet.

See: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/vpc.html#vpc-in...

ceejayoz on Jan 16, 2019 | [–]

Eww. TIL, thanks.

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