[Yandex Cloud documentation](../../index.md) > [Yandex Virtual Private Cloud](../index.md) > Concepts > Resource relationships

# VPC concepts

Yandex Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a service for creating cloud networks that are used for transmitting information within your cloud and connecting cloud resources to the internet.

![image](../../_assets/vpc/vpc-overview.svg)

With VPC, you can:

- Create subnets and connect cloud resources to them.
- Enable information transfer between the cloud resources.
- Connect the cloud resources to the internet.
- Create static routes and manage traffic using security groups.
- Route traffic to the internet via a NAT gateway.

Above you can see a general diagram showing the relationships between networks, subnets, and Yandex Cloud resources. In the management console, you can open a [cloud network map](network.md#map) that, similar to the diagram above, visualizes the connections between your resources located within a selected folder.

For more information about cloud networks, see:
- [Cloud networks and subnets](network.md)
- [Cloud resource addresses](address.md)
- [Static routing](routing.md)
- [Security groups](security-groups.md)