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Custom route table

Custom route table - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: VPC Networking: Designing a Software Defined Data Center on AWS

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Custom route table

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- [Instructor] When creating a custom route table, we want to use the VPC dashboard, and then we want to select route tables on the left. The viewing shows us the current route tables in my account. On the right, we can see that there are route tables for the default VPC, another VPC called the DEV VPC, and the one that we're working on in this class, HPlusSports. So to create a route table, we click create a route table. Now we have to give it a name. Again, the name, very important because when you're troubleshooting, when you've got problems, you don't want to name that's just a bunch of numbers that will slow you down in figuring out where your problem is. Let's say this is for a public subnet with internet gateway access required. So if I look at this name, hopefully it's going to twig in my mind that oh yeah, that's got associations with the internet gateway. Anything I'm creating at AWS to do with networking has to be placed in the appropriate VPC. So we'll select HPlusSports…

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