Exercise 6.1 – setting up a public subnet VPC
In this exercise, you will create your own custom VPC that will contain a public subnet. In later chapters, you will expand this VPC to add private subnets for different use case:
- Log in to your AWS account as the IAM user
Aliceyou created in Chapter 4, Identity and Access Management. - On the main AWS Management Console, search for
VPCin the search box.Figure 6.23 – Configuring a new VPC
- Select VPC from the filtered list.
- VPCs are Region-specific, so make sure you select the US-East-1 Region from the top right-hand corner of the screen.
- On the main VPC console screen, click on the Launch VPC Wizard button. This will launch the VPC wizard.
- Next, select the first option, VPC with a Single Public Subnet.
- In Step 2, provide the following details for your VPC.
For IPv4 CIDR block, enter the IP block of
10.0.0.0/16. This IP block represents your VPC network.For VPC name, enter the name
ProductionVPC...