What does a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) allow you to do?

A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) allows you to define IP address ranges and control network infrastructure within the AWS cloud environment. This means that you can create isolated network environments within AWS, customize the network layout, and control the flow of traffic to and from your resources.

With a VPC, you can set up various networking components, such as subnets, route tables, internet gateways, and security groups, enabling you to manage the network in a way that aligns with your application requirements and security policies. For instance, you can segment your resources into public and private subnets, restrict access to sensitive resources, and ensure that communications between instances in the VPC are secure.

The additional options provided do not pertain specifically to VPC capabilities. Launching and managing physical servers is focused on infrastructure that is not part of the cloud paradigm that VPC operates in. Storing data in Amazon S3 relates to a completely different AWS service oriented around object storage, while hosting static websites on S3 buckets also does not involve the network infrastructure customization and control that VPC offers. Thus, the primary function of a VPC is indeed to allow for the definition of IP address ranges and control over the network infrastructure.