Working with VPCs

Enough talk! It's time to get into some action! In this section, we are going to look at how AWS facilitates the easy deployment of VPCs using something called as the VPC wizard as well as how to create your very first, fully fledged and operational VPC! So, what are we waiting for? Let's get started!

VPC deployment scenarios

VPC provides a simple, easy-to-use wizard that can spin up a fully functional VPC within a couple of minutes. All you need to do is select a particular deployment scenario out of the four scenarios provided and configure a few basic parameters such as subnet information, availability zones in which you want to launch your subnets, and so on, and the rest is all taken care of by AWS itself.

Let's have a quick look at the four VPC deployment scenarios:

• VPC with a single public subnet: This is by far the simplest of the four deployment scenarios. Using this scenario, VPC will provision a single public subnet with a default Internet Gateway attached to it...