### Product Overview

Private connections enable secure and straightforward network connectivity between service consumers and providers through an intranet. They consist of endpoints and endpoint services. Endpoint services are provided by the service provider and are instances offering services, whereas endpoints are created by the service consumers to access services provided by the endpoint services.

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### Terminology

<table>
  <tr>
    <th><b>Type</b></th>
    <th><b>Term</b></th>
    <th><b>Description</b></th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td rowspan="3">Service Provider</td>
    <td>Endpoint Service</td>
    <td>Created and managed by the service provider, this is a service that can be connected to via private network connections by creating an endpoint from other VPCs.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Service Resource</td>
    <td>Resources within the endpoint service that can be accessed through the endpoint, such as an Application Load Balancer (ALB).</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Whitelist</td>
    <td>Used to control the range of users who can access service resources in the endpoint service.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Service Consumer</td>
    <td>Endpoint</td>
    <td>Created and managed by the service consumer, it establishes a private network connection with the endpoint service and acts as the entry point for the endpoint VPC to access the endpoint service.</td>
  </tr>
</table>