CLOUD LABS
Understanding Networking Services in AWS—From Zero to Hero
In this Cloud Lab, you’ll become proficient in network services by creating a VPC, security groups, and load balancers.
beginner
Certificate of Completion
Learning Objectives
AWS offers a comprehensive suite of networking services to facilitate secure and efficient communication between resources. These network services, like Amazon VPC, enable users to create isolated network environments, allowing fine-grained control over IP address ranges and subnets. Security groups act as virtual firewalls, controlling inbound and outbound traffic to AWS resources. Load balancers evenly distribute incoming network traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, enhancing availability and fault tolerance.
In this Cloud Lab, you will thoroughly explore the core network services provided by AWS, focusing on VPCs, security groups, and load balancers. You’ll create a VPC with public and private subnets in multiple Availability Zones. Then, you’ll launch an application on EC2 instances in the created VPC such that its backend is not accessible from the internet. Then, you will duplicate the application in a different Availability Zone to improve the resistance of the application. After that, you’ll create an application load balancer to distribute the back-end load and manage back-end resources in case of failure. Similarly, you’ll create the load balancer for the frontend of the application to manage requests and applications in case of failure. After that, you’ll learn about Auto Scaling and how it can improve the resistance of an application.
By the end of this Cloud Lab, you’ll have gained practical experience in creating a VPC, security group, and application load balancer, as well as launching an application on EC2 instances in the created VPC such that its backend isn’t accessible from the internet. These skills are essential for anyone working with AWS and will help you ensure the smooth deployment of your applications in a VPC with high scalability and reliability of your applications. The following is the high-level architecture diagram of the infrastructure that you’ll create in this Cloud Lab:
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