Big news: you actually need to learn networking if you're going to manage a network. VPC is just basic networking, reinvented by AWS because they screwed up th

Big news: you actually need to learn networking if you're going to manage a network. VPC is just basic networking, reinvented by AWS because they screwed up that part real bad in the first EC2 arch. VPC is not complicated, it probably takes half a day to figure it out. And compared to the ridiculous amount of time it takes to setup EC2 in the first place (when you come from classic datacenter), it's a good investment that's not going to show in the budget.