Amazon VPC Operations

Internal

• Amazon VPC

Create a VPC

Create a VPC with Amazon Console

VPC Console -> Your VPCs -> Create VPC:

Name tag: the name of the VPC

IPv4 CIDR block: 10.7.0.0/16

IPv6 CIDR block: No IPv6 CIDR Block

Tenancy: default

Create a VPC with CloudFormation

AWS::EC2::VPC

Resources:
  VPC:
    Type: AWS::EC2::VPC
    Properties: 
      CidrBlock: !Ref PrimaryIPAddressRange
      EnableDnsSupport: true
      EnableDnsHostnames: false
      InstanceTenancy: "default"
      Tags:
        - Key: "Name"
          Value: !Ref VPCName

Describe VPC

aws ec2 describe-vpcs --vpc-id <vpc-id>

Create an Internet Gateway

AWS::EC2::InternetGateway

Resources:
  InternetGateway:
    Type: AWS::EC2::InternetGateway
    Properties: 
      Tags:
        - Resource Tag

Create a NAT Gateway

• Create a NAT Gateway with Amazon Console