Routing Amazon VPC Traffic Through a Network Appliance
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
February 11th, 2023 - Resolved environment error
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Andrew is a Labs Developer with previous experience in the Internet Service Provider, Audio Streaming, and CryptoCurrency industries. He has also been a DevOps Engineer and enjoys working with CI/CD and Kubernetes.
He holds multiple AWS certifications including Solutions Architect Associate and Professional.