Creating a Virtual Private Cloud
As mentioned earlier, AWS configures a default VPC for you in each region when you create your account. You can also create your own VPC, which is exactly what we will learn to do in this section. Even if your organization already has an AWS account with a VPC configured, going through this section will still be a valuable learning experience. It will also help you understand what configuration changes may be necessary for your existing VPC to launch Metabase.
In this section, we'll learn how to create a VPC configured with the required network infrastructure for Metabase. Specifically, that means creating a VPC with two public subnets in two different availability zones, both with internet gateways in their routing table. We'll also learn what all this means, and why it's important. To get started, search for the VPC service in the AWS Management Console, just as we did with the IAM service. This will take you to the VPC Management...