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title: Support for Amazon VPC
slug: ps/help/en_us/vtm/cloudgs/support-for-amazon-vpc
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createdAt: 2026-08-02T08:48:57.751Z
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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) lets you provision a private, isolated section of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define. Instances launched within the VPC have private addresses assigned from a range you define.

Traffic Manager AMIs can be deployed either inside or outside of a VPC. Traffic Manager AMIs deployed outside of a VPC are sometimes referred to as EC2-Classic. There are, however, a number of differences in the way that the Traffic Manager handles IP addressing and Traffic IP groups when deployed inside a VPC. These differences are covered in more detail in [Traffic IP Groups and Fault Tolerance on Amazon EC2](docId\:n-Y-0MKLyvX-O_YkXelPB)

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References to EC2 instances within this guide should be taken to mean all Traffic Manager instances launched into Amazon EC2, regardless of whether this is a VPC or an EC2-Classic deployment. Differences in functionality are noted in this guide.
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This guide assumes you are familiar with VPC functionality in Amazon EC2. For more details about the VPC capabilities, implementation and deployment, see [http://aws.amazon.com/vpc](http://aws.amazon.com/vpc).