Execute the following steps to create a VPC using the wizard:
- Open the VPC dashboard from within the AWS Management Console.
- Select the blue Launch VPC Wizard button:
- You will then be asked to select a configuration type for your VPC. There are four different options to select, and each is configured differently, offering you different solutions:
- For this demonstration, select VPC with a Single Public Subnet and click Select.
To clarify at this point, a public subnet is a subnet that is reachable by the internet. So any resources within that subnet can reach out to internet traffic and also receive internet traffic. How this is configured and the components used will be discussed when we manually configure a VPC. For now, let's complete the wizard.
- You are now presented with the following page, where you are asked to provide additional configurable parameters that will dictate how your VPC and public subnet are configured from a CIDR...
