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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)

Enabling VPC flow logs

VPC flow logs is a feature which helps in capturing information about the IP network traffic going to and from the VPC. This information can be used for troubleshooting connectivity and security. All the logs are stored in CloudWatch logs. You can also trigger an alarm for certain use cases or threats.

Getting ready

You will need access to the VPC and CloudWatch.

How to do it...

  1. Log in to the AWS Console and then select VPC.
    1. Select your VPC | Actions | Create Flow Log.
Create Flow Log
    1. Click Create Flow Log.
Create Flow Log
    1. Create...