AWS (Amazon Web Services) networking refers to the networking services and features provided by Amazon within their cloud computing platform. AWS networking allows you to set up, manage, and optimize network resources to build and operate scalable, secure, and highly available applications.

Some of the key components and services in AWS networking include:

1. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC): VPC is a logically isolated virtual network where you can launch AWS resources. It allows you to define your own private IP address range, create subnets, configure route tables, and network gateways, providing control over your network infrastructure.

2. Subnets: Subnets are subdivisions of a VPC’s IP address range. You can create public and private subnets to control access to resources and segregate different types of instances.

3. Internet Gateway: An Internet Gateway enables communication between instances in your VPC and the internet. Instances in public subnets can have public IP addresses associated with them and can communicate directly with the internet.

4. NAT Gateway/NAT Instances: Network Address Translation (NAT) allows instances in private subnets to access the internet while keeping them isolated from direct external access. NAT Gateway and NAT Instances are used to enable outbound internet connectivity for private instances.

5. Security Groups: Security Groups act as virtual firewalls that control inbound and outbound traffic for instances. You can define rules to allow or deny specific types of traffic based on source and destination.

6. Network Access Control Lists (ACLs): NACLs are stateless firewall rules that control traffic at the subnet level. They provide an additional layer of security by allowing or denying traffic based on source and destination IP addresses, ports, and protocols.

7. Elastic Load Balancing: AWS provides load balancing solutions like Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Network Load Balancer (NLB) to distribute incoming traffic across multiple instances, improving application availability and fault tolerance.

8. Amazon Route 53: A scalable domain name system (DNS) web service that translates domain names into IP addresses. It can be used for domain registration, DNS routing, and health checks to ensure high availability.

9. Virtual Private Network (VPN): AWS offers VPN connections to establish secure and encrypted communication between your on-premises data center or office and your VPC.

10. Direct Connect: Direct Connect enables you to create a dedicated network connection from your on-premises environment to AWS, bypassing the public internet for improved performance, security, and reliability.

11. VPC Peering: VPC peering allows you to connect multiple VPCs together, enabling them to communicate with each other as if they were in the same network.

These are just some of the core networking components and services provided by AWS. They offer a robust set of tools to build and manage your network infrastructure to suit the needs of your applications and workloads within the AWS cloud environment.