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Order and configure an internet gateway

Order and configure an internet gateway - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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

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Order and configure an internet gateway

- [Instructor] To attach an internet gateway, we need to go into the VPC console, so let's search for the VPC console. Once we're in the console, we have to decide, what VPC are we wanting to use to provide public internet access to? So selecting your VPCs, we're going to focus on HPlusSports. So to create an internet gateway, we merely select Internet Gateway. We can see that there is already an internet gateway in this account and it's attached to the Dev VPC. We want to create another internet gateway for another VPC. So clicking create internet gateway, we give it a name tag. So HPlusSports and create. We can see there's not too many steps because really, what we're asking Amazon to do is provide internet gateway access from a massive server farm in our particular region. So I've created an internet gateway, great. But it's not attached. If I am going to allow public access to a network, I have to do all the work. Amazon doesn't make anything public by default. So clicking…

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