# Amazon VPC and Amazon Aurora
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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) makes it possible for you to launch AWS resources, such as Aurora DB clusters, into a virtual private cloud (VPC). 

When you use a VPC, you have control over your virtual networking environment. You can choose your own IP address range, create subnets, and configure routing and access control lists. There is no additional cost to run your DB cluster in a VPC. 

Accounts have a default VPC. All new DB clusters are created in the default VPC unless you specify otherwise.

**Topics**
+ [Working with a DB cluster in a VPC](USER_VPC.WorkingWithRDSInstanceinaVPC.md)
+ [Scenarios for accessing a DB cluster in a VPC](USER_VPC.Scenarios.md)
+ [Tutorial: Create a VPC for use with a DB cluster (IPv4 only)](CHAP_Tutorials.WebServerDB.CreateVPC.md)
+ [Tutorial: Create a VPC for use with a DB cluster (dual-stack mode)](CHAP_Tutorials.CreateVPCDualStack.md)

Following, you can find a discussion about VPC functionality relevant to Amazon Aurora DB clusters. For more information about Amazon VPC, see [Amazon VPC Getting Started Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/GettingStartedGuide/) and [Amazon VPC User Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/).

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Amazon RDS. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query AmazonRDS` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).