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AWS Networking Cookbook

You're reading from AWS Networking Cookbook Powerful recipes to overcome the pain points of optimizing your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787123243

Length 366 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Networking

Authors (2):

Satyajit Das

Jhalak Modi

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. Getting Started with AWS Networking Components FREE CHAPTER

2. Building Your Own Custom VPC

3. VPC Advanced Components

4. Configuring Global Scale Infrastructure

5. Working with Infrastructure Automation

6. Working with Route 53

7. Cloud Security and Network Compliance

8. Troubleshooting and VPC Limits

9. Pricing of VPC and Related Components

Errors while connecting an EC2 instance in a VPC

There can be multiple reasons for getting such an error; a few of them are mentioned following:

EC2 created in the wrong subnet group or private subnet
Instance doesn't have a public IP or you are trying to connect with a private IP
SSH/RDP port is not opened in the security group or the security group is not attached to the instance

Getting ready

You should have access to EC2 and VPC to view and modify the resources.

How to do it...

The following steps are to be followed:

Start by checking the IP of the instance. Verify that you are using the correct IP address. Follow the following steps to check the IP:
1. Log in to the AWS Console | EC2 | Instances | Instance.

AWS EC2 Console

1. Check that your instance has either a public IP address or an Elastic IP address associated with it in the case of public instances. Follow the following steps to check the Associated Elastic IP:
1. Log in to the AWS Console | EC2 | Elastic IPs | Allocate new address.

Allocate Elastic...

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Authors (2)

Satyajit Das

Satyajit Das

Satyajit Das has sixteen years of industry experience including around four years of experience in AWS and Google cloud. He helped internal and external customers for defining architecture of applications to be hosted in cloud. He has defined migration factory and led teams for application migration. He has used Enterprise architecture framework to define application, data and infrastructure architecture and migrate solutions to AWS cloud. He applied architected, designed and implemented high available, scalable and fault-tolerant applications using Micro-Architecture paradigm and used cloud-native architecture in AWS. He has also been involved with cloud CoE and Governance setup, defining best practices, policies and guidelines for Service implementations. He has lead large teams for solution delivery and execution. He has experience across industry domains like manufacturing, finance, consulting, and government.

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Modi

Modi

Jhalak Modi is a DevOps engineer with a deep interest and expertise in implementing large-scale cloud, big data, CI/CD, and automation solutions on a variety of public/private/hybrid clouds, as well as on-premises. She is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and DevOps professional with more than 10 certifications in trending technologies. She is also a public speaker at AWS events, universities, meet-ups, and corporate trainings. Currently, working with KOGENTiX, Singapore, she has previously worked with Wipro Technologies and Electromech Corporation.

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