Exploring Amazon Web Services (AWS)

In my previous article, Creating a VPC - Part 1 , I've shown you how to create a VPC using the VPC Wizard.  Here I will demonstrate how to build a VPC manually, without using the Wizard. We will use the same requirements: 1. End users are located in US Northern Virginia 2. VPC requires 1 Private and 1 Public subnet with the private subnet having     outbound access to the internet. 3. Defined CIDR Block is 10.0.0.0/16 Method 2: Creating a VPC manually 1. Login to the AWS management console using your Admin account. 2. Select your location based on where your end users will be. In this     case it is US Northern Virginia (US East 1) 3. Click " Services ", then scroll down to Network & Content Delivery     and then click " VPC ". 4. From the Navigation pane click on " Your VPCs ". 5. Then click " Create VPC " 6. Enter the name you wish to give your VPC.  Then enter the CIDR Block     for your VPC as well. ...

A VPC is your very own private cloud within AWS.  Think of it as a DataCenter that you build with your own specifications and will be the place you build and deploy your cloud environment. In this article, I will teach you how to create a Custom VPC within AWS.  Please note that this is different from the default VPCs that AWS creates for you when you setup an account. What you will need: 1. An AWS account ( Creating and AWS Free Tier account ) 2. Location of your target end users 3. Number of Private and/or Public subnets required 4. A Network CIDR range of your choice depending on your requirements There are 2 ways to create VPCs. 1. Using the VPC Wizard 2. Creating VPC from scratch For demonstration purposes let us assume these requirements:  1. End users are located in the US Northern Virginia 2. You need 1 Private subnet with outbound access to the internet and 1 Public subnet 3. CIDR 10.0.0.0/16 Method 1: Creating a VPC using the VPC Wizard 1. ...

The Network and Content Delivery Services suite contains multiple services that control how your cloud services connect and interface with each other as well as with your on-premise data center. This basically holds services that will help you design your infrastructure's interconnectivity, and traffic and content distribution. See below the current list of available services within this category. VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)        - Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) enables you to launch Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources into a virtual network that you've defined.  This virtual network closely resembles a traditional network that you'd operate in your own data center, with the benefits of using the scalable infrastructure of AWS.        - In short, this is a virtual data center. CloudFront        - Amazon CloudFront is a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applica...