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Creating and Using a VPC Endpoint Service

Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes
Students: 538
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Description

VPC Endpoints are virtual network devices that scale horizontally and are highly available. They can securely enable communication from Amazon EC2 instances to AWS services, and services provided by other vendors. You can create your own VPC endpoint service to expose a service in one VPC to another VPC. Using them in this way can have cost and security benefits.

Learning how to use VPC Endpoint services will increase the range of options available to you when you need to create advanced network infrastructure in the public AWS cloud.

In this lab, you will create a VPC endpoint service and related resources. You will then test that they work.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this intermediate-level lab, you will be able to:

  • Create an Amazon VPC
  • Create an Amazon EC2 instance and a network load balancer
  • Create a VPC endpoint and VPC endpoint service
  • Configure your VPC to access an application through a VPC endpoint

Intended Audience

  • Candidates for the AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty certification
  • Cloud Architects
  • DevOps Engineers

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:

  • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
  • Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

The following content can be used to fulfill the prerequisite:

Updates

January 29th, 2025 - Updated the instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest UI

September 6th, 2023 - Updated the instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest UI

October 3rd, 2022 - Updated screenshots and instructions due to UI changes

June 1st, 2022 - Updated instructions and screenshots to reflect the new launch instance wizard

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Covered topics

Networking
Security
Compute
High Availability
Amazon Web Services
Networking for AWS
Security for AWS
Compute for AWS
Elastic Load Balancing
Amazon VPC
Amazon EC2
Amazon VPC Endpoints
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  1. Logging In to the Amazon Web Services Console
  2. Creating a Network Load Balancer
  3. Creating an Endpoint Service
  4. Creating a Consumer VPC and a VPC Endpoint
  5. Creating an Amazon EC2 Instance

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