Amazon VPC is a foundational offering from Amazon Web Services that lets you create private networks in the cloud and gives you full control over the internal network routing. A common need when using cloud networks is use of a network appliance to inspect or monitor network traffic between network devices.

Learning how to configure routing will make you more effective at creating complex VPC networks. Use of a network appliance can give you real-time observability over your network traffic.

In this lab, you will configure routing so that incoming public internet traffic is routed through a network appliance before arriving at its destination.

Learning Objectives

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

• Create a Subnet
• Create an Elastic Network Interface
• Use the Amazon VPC Middlebox Wizard
• View packets using Amazon CloudWatch Logs

Intended Audience

• Candidates for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional 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)
• Amazon CloudWatch Logs

The following content can be used to fulfill the prerequisite:

• AWS Virtual Private Cloud: Subnets and Routing
• Using Elastic Load Balancing & EC2 Auto Scaling to Support AWS Workloads
• Filtering Amazon CloudWatch Log Events

Updates

August 12th, 2024 - Updated the instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest UI

February 11th, 2023 - Resolved environment error