Exercise 6.1 – setting up a public subnet VPC

In this exercise, you will create your own custom VPC that will contain a public subnet. In later chapters, you will expand this VPC to add private subnets for different use case:

1. Log in to your AWS account as the IAM user Alice you created in Chapter 4, Identity and Access Management.
2. On the main AWS Management Console, search for VPC in the search box.

   Figure 6.23 – Configuring a new VPC

3. Select VPC from the filtered list.
4. VPCs are Region-specific, so make sure you select the US-East-1 Region from the top right-hand corner of the screen.
5. On the main VPC console screen, click on the Launch VPC Wizard button. This will launch the VPC wizard.
6. Next, select the first option, VPC with a Single Public Subnet.
7. In Step 2, provide the following details for your VPC.

   For IPv4 CIDR block, enter the IP block of 10.0.0.0/16. This IP block represents your VPC network.

   For VPC name, enter the name ProductionVPC...