To get the most out of this book

This book assumes that you are familiar with at least the basics of cloud computing. Having an understanding of networking concepts will provide you with the background to be productive with AWS utilization.

You need to have an AWS account to perform the steps mentioned in this book. AWS provides a free trial for 1 year.

Additionally, you will need access to the internet to download PuTTY to connect to instances. Any normal hardware configuration is good enough to access the AWS management portal from a browser, such as 4 GB RAM and 500 GB hard disk.

Download the color images

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/PracticalAWSNetworking_ColorImages.pdf.

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Once the download is successful, extract the files using the tar zxpvf apache-tomcat-8.5.20.tar.gz</kbd> command"

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Select System info from the Administration panel."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.