Using VPC Traffic Mirroring to monitor and secure your AWS …

The following diagram (figure 1) shows how to monitor traffic that is entering/leaving a VPC from two EC2 instances (A and B) in the public subnet and concurrently monitor intra-VPC traffic between two EC2 instances (C and D) in the private subnet. In this example, each of these instances (A, B, C, and D) are mirroring sources.

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