Managing an Internet Gateway
An Internet Gateway is an AWS component that enables communication between resources hosted in the VPC and the internet. It is a horizontally scalable and highly available component. It doesn't enforce any network bandwidth constraints. It is the channel through which services hosted inside the VPC are accessed by the outside world. It also enables resources hosted in the AWS to connect to the internet.
Getting ready
The prerequisites for this section are the same as recipe, Managing a Network ACL.
How to do it...
- Log in to your AWS account and open the
VPC Dashboard
as shown in the earlier recipe. - Click on
Internet Gateways
in the left menu bar under theVirtual Private Cloud
menu. You can see that the IG which was created with the default VPC in the region is visible:

Internet Gateway dashboard
- Click on
Create Internet Gateway
. The following window will open. Provide aName tag
and click onYes, Create
:

Internet Gateway creation from console
- You can see the IG is...