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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

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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

Managing EC2 instances

EC2 is an infrastructure in the AWS Cloud with certain compute, memory, and network resources. Though EC2 is not a networking component, we shall try to create a couple of them to check whether the network components that we have created work with EC2. We shall also understand how networking components integrate with resources in AWS.

Getting ready

We need to have an AWS account created with a user that has permission to manage EC2 instances, which we already have.

How to do it...

Log in to your AWS account and open the EC2 Dashboard:

EC2 Dashboard

Click on the Launch Instance. The following window will open. You can choose any prebuilt virtual image called Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that you like. However, for now Select the first one:

Choose AMI for EC2

The following window will open. Select the instance type that you would like to choose. For now, select the one that is already selected. It is free tier eligible:

EC2 - Choose instance type

Click Next: Configure Instance...

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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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