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Hands-on lab: Launching an Amazon VPC

Hands-on lab: Launching an Amazon VPC

- [Instructor] In this video, we will explore the process of creating a basic Amazon Virtual Private Cloud and briefly discuss its different elements. Let's get started. In this practical demonstration, we'll set up three public and private subnets in different availability zones. Additionally, we'll establish an internet gateway and a NAT gateway to enable internet connectivity for both the private and public subnets. There are two ways of doing this diagram, the step by step and the easy one. We will do both, but I recommend following along with the step by step to gain familiarity with how every VPC component works together. But before we proceed, let's review the VPC component. A subnet is a range of IP addresses in your VPC. You can create AWS resources such as EC2 instances in specific subnets. Each subnet must reside entirely within one availability zone and cannot span zones. By launching AWS resources in separate availability zones, you can protect your applications from the…

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