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Routing Amazon VPC Traffic Through a Network Appliance

Difficulty: Beginner
Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes
Students: 507
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Description

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:

Updates

January 13th, 2025 - Updated the instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest UI

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

February 11th, 2023 - Resolved environment error

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Covered topics

Networking
Security
Compute
High Availability
Amazon Web Services
Networking for AWS
Security for AWS
Compute for AWS
Amazon VPC
Amazon EC2
Amazon CloudWatch
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Lab steps

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  1. Logging In to the Amazon Web Services Console
  2. Creating a Subnet and Elastic Network Interface
  3. Launching a Second Middlebox
  4. Using the Middlebox Routing Wizard
  5. Reviewing the Routes and Flow Logs

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