VPC
n.n. Stands for Virtual Private Cloud. A private section of a public cloud service where you can run your own websites or apps safely away from others.
n. Abbreviation for Virtual Private Cloud. A private, isolated section of a public cloud environment where a user can launch resources in a virtual network they define.
The company hosts its database inside a secure VPC.
By configuring a VPC, the engineering team ensured that their internal servers were not accessible from the public internet.
Architecting a multi-region VPC allows for high availability and disaster recovery by distributing critical application components across geographically distinct data centers while maintaining a unified private network.
An initialism of virtual private cloud. The term was formed by combining the existing concepts of virtualisation and private networking with the emerging cloud computing model of the late 2000s.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Commonly used in cloud computing and IT infrastructure contexts.
Last updated July 22, 2026