Book Image

AWS Networking Cookbook

By : Satyajit Das, Jhalak Modi
Book Image

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)

Creating, storing, and testing the template--CloudFormation

CloudFormation supports creating a VPC and its components for the mentioned CIDR block. We will go through the CloudFormation template and an example (JSON).

Getting ready

Before creating our first stack, we will need to create a template. CloudFormation templates can be written in JSON or YAML format.

Below are the basic snippets of various functions that we will be using in our example.

How to do it...

In this section, we will focus on creating, storing, and testing the template. Let's start with some snippets...