Configuring VPC DHCP options
DHCP options sets are associated with your AWS account so that they can be used across all your VPCs. You can assign your own domain name to your instances by specifying a set of DHCP options for your VPC. However, only one DHCP option set can be associated with a VPC. Also, you can't modify the DHCP option set after it is created. In case you want to use a different set of DHCP options then you will need to create a new DHCP option set and associate it with your VPC. There is no need to restart or relaunch the instances in the VPC after associating the new DHCP option set as they can automatically pick up the changes.
How to do it…
In this section, we will create a DHCP option set and then associate it with your VPC.
- Create a DHCP option set with a specific domain name and domain name servers. In our example, we execute commands to create a DHCP options set and associate it with our VPC. We specify domain name
testdomain.comand DNS servers (10.2.5...
