Deliverables

Submit Screenshot of your new VPC

Submit Screenshot of the created subnet

Submit Screenshot of the attached Internet Gateway

Submit Screenshot of the Route Table

Submit Screenshot of your Running Instance using your new VPC

Submit Screenshot of apache page loaded using Elastic IP

Screenshot of your server web page loaded using a dns name

Steps

Create a New Non-Default VPC

Open the Amazon VPC console from Services in the AWS Console

Choose Create VPC

On the configuration page

• Choose VPC and More
• Enter a name tag for your VPC in the Auto-Generate field
• Select 1 Availability Zone
• Select 1 Public Subnet
• Select 0 Private subnets
• Customize the CIDR block to be a /24
• Leave defaults for everything else
• Click Create VPC

View information about your VPC

Choose Subnets and find the subnet that was created when you created your VPC

Choose Internet Gateways and find the internet gateway that's attached to your VPC

Choose Route Tables. Select the custom route table (the Main column displays No), and then choose the Routes tab to display the route information in the details pane.

Launch an instance into your VPC

Navigate to EC2 > Instances > Launch an instance

Choose a Free-tier Eligible Ubuntu 20.04 AMI

Edit Network settings and choose the new VPC and subnet

• Add a rule to allow inbound HTTP

• Add a rule to allow inbound SSH

Add Name Tag

Choose Launch instance and select keypair

View Instance details

• The Private IPs field displays the private IP address that's assigned to your instance from the range of IP addresses in your subnet.

• You will notice that no Public IP is assigned, so you cannot SSH into the system remotely

Assign an Elastic IP address to your instance

Navigate to VPC > Elastic IPs

Choose Allocate new address, and then Allocate

Select the Elastic IP address from the list, choose Actions, and then choose Associate Address

For Resource type, ensure that Instance is selected. Choose your instance from the Instance list. Choose Associate when you're done.

• Your instance is now accessible from the internet

Configure a Web Service and Connect

SSH into your instance

ssh -i nicolas.pem [email protected]

Install Apache2

sudo apt-get install apache2

Start apache2 with systemctl

sudo systemctl start apache2

Can add/update your DuckDNS account for your new server (duckdns.org)

It can take a bit to propagate across DNS

• Try: https://dnschecker.org/
• You can put in your hostname and run tests - after a while you will see it start to propagate across the world!