In this chapter, we will cover Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) and some of its components.
We can create Amazon VPC in two ways:
- Via the wizard:
- VPC with a single public subnet
- VPC with public and private subnets
- VPC with public and private subnets and hardware VPN access
- VPC with a private subnet only and hardware VPN access
- Via a custom VPC, without using the wizard
We will cover both types of VPC creation, in brief, to get more familiar with the concepts, and also create some VPCs in an easier manner.
After creating a VPC, we will provision Elastic Beanstalk instances in the custom VPC to host a sample application. Elastic Beanstalk is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) and creates instances behind the scenes; hence, those instances will be launched in our custom VPC.
We will see how to provision a logically isolated section of the Amazon Web Services ...