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AWS Networking Cookbook

By : Satyajit Das, Jhalak Modi
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AWS Networking Cookbook

By: Satyajit Das, Jhalak Modi

Overview of this book

This book starts with practical recipes on the fundamentals of cloud networking and gradually moves on to configuring networks and implementing infrastructure automation. This book then supplies in-depth recipes on networking components like Network Interface, Internet Gateways, DNS, Elastic IP addresses, and VPN CloudHub. Later, this book also delves into designing, implementing, and optimizing static and dynamic routing architectures, multi-region solutions, and highly available connectivity for your enterprise. Finally, this book will teach you to troubleshoot your VPC's network, increasing your VPC's efficiency. By the end of this book, you will have advanced knowledge of AWS networking concepts and technologies and will have mastered implementing infrastructure automation and optimizing your VPC.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Managing EC2 instances

EC2 is an infrastructure in the AWS Cloud with certain compute, memory, and network resources. Though EC2 is not a networking component, we shall try to create a couple of them to check whether the network components that we have created work with EC2. We shall also understand how networking components integrate with resources in AWS.

Getting ready

We need to have an AWS account created with a user that has permission to manage EC2 instances, which we already have.

How to do it...

  1. Log in to your AWS account and open the EC2 Dashboard:
EC2 Dashboard...