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The master route table

The master route table - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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

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The master route table

- [Instructor] When we create a VPC, an associated route table is assigned to that VPC. Let's go down and look at the VPCs in this AWS account by selecting Your VPCs. What we can see is there's a number of VPCs already created. Let's highlight HPlusSports. At the bottom of the screen, you can see there is a route table that has been assigned to this VPC. Let's open that up. We can see the route table isn't explicitly associated with anything, it's linked to the VPC and as I create subnets in this VPC, if I do nothing with route tables, the subnet will have a route table already assigned because of the linkage between this master route table and the VPC. Amazon's ensuring that you don't create a subnet with no routes. If I go over to subnets, and look up the subnet that I created in our HPlusSports and take a look at the route table, you'll see it's the same route table that we were looking at when we were looking at the route table inside our VPC. Expanding this route table, we can…

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