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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)

Accessing an instance from outside AWS

In the last recipe, we connected to an instance in the private subnet through a bastion server through the internet. In this recipe, we'll see how to connect to the Windows Server and connect it through the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). You need to have a Windows OS in your machine to complete this recipe.

Getting ready

Log in to the console with the appropriate permissions.

How to do it...

The steps for accessing an instance from outside AWS are as follows:

  1. Browse to the EC2 console. Click on Launch Instance. Select...