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1. ec2 DescribeVpcs ec2 DescribeRouteTables ec2 DescribeVpnGateways ec2 DescribeInternetGateways ec2 DescribeSubnets ec2 DescribeDhcpOptions ec2 DescribelIn stances ec2 DescribeVpcAttribute ec2 DescribeNetworkAcls ec2 DescribeNetworkInterfaces ec2 D scribeAddresses ec2 DescribeVpcPeeringConnections ec2 DescribeSecurityGroups ec2 CreateVpc ec2 DeleteVpc ec2 DetachInternetGateway ec2 DisassociateRouteTable ec2 DeleteSubnet l Resource Effect Allow Action ec2 DeleteInternetGateway Resource arn aws ec2 region account internet gateway Condition StringEquals ec2 ResourceTag Purpose Test Effect Allow Action ec2 DeleteRouteTable Resource arn awS ec2 region account route table Condition StringEquals ec2 ResourceTag Purpose Test API Version 2015 04 15 104 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Example Policies for the Console Example 3 Managing security groups To view security groups on the Security Groups page in the Amazon VPC console users must have permission to use the ec2 DescribeSecurityGroups action To use the Create Security Group dialog box to create a security group users must have permission to use the ec2 DescribeVpcs and ec2 CreateSecurityGroup actions If users do not have permission to use the c2 DescribeSecu
2. you selected You can leave the default selection and then choose Next Configure Instance Details 6 On the Configure Instance Details page select the VPC that you created from the Network list and the subnet from the Subnet list Leave the rest of the default settings and go through the next pages of the wizard until you get to the Tag Instance page 7 On the Tag Instance page you can tag your instance with a Name tag for example Name MyWebServer This helps you to identify your instance in the Amazon EC2 console after you ve launched it Choose Next Configure Security Group when you are done 8 On the Configure Security Group page the wizard automatically defines the launch wizard x security group to allow you to connect to your instance Instead choose the Select an existing security group option select the WebServerSG group that you created previously and then choose Review and Launch 9 Onthe Review Instance Launch page check the details of your instance and then choose Launch 10 In the Select an existing key pair or create a new key pair dialog box you can choose an existing key pair or create a new one If you create a new key pair ensure that you download the file and store it in a secure location You ll need the contents of the private key to connect to your instance after it s launched To launch your instance select the acknowledgment check box and then choose Launch Instances 11 On the confirmation pa
3. 10 0 0 0 16 API Version 2015 04 15 32 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Basic Configuration for Scenario 3 Important For this scenario the Amazon VPC Network Administrator Guide describes what your network administrator needs to do to configure the Amazon VPC customer gateway on your side of the VPN connection Basic Configuration for Scenario 3 The following list describes the basic components presented in the configuration diagram for this scenario e A virtual private cloud VPC of size 16 example CIDR 10 0 0 0 16 This provides 65 536 private IP addresses A public subnet of size 24 example CIDR 10 0 0 0 24 This provides 256 private IP addresses AVPN only subnet of size 24 example CIDR 10 0 1 0 24 This provides 256 private IP addresses An Internet gateway This connects the VPC to the Internet and to other AWS products AVPN connection between your VPC and your network The VPN connection consists of a virtual private gateway located on the Amazon side of the VPN connection and a customer gateway located on your side of the VPN connection Instances with private IP addresses in the subnet range examples 10 0 0 5 and 10 0 1 5 which enables the instances to communicate with each other and other instances in the VPC Instances in the public subnet also have Elastic IP addresses example 198 51 100 1 which enables them to be reached from the Internet Instances in the VPN only subnet are bac
4. Denies all inbound traffic not already handled by a preced ing rule not modifiable Comments Allows outbound HTTP traffic from the subnet to the Inter net Allows outbound HTTPS traffic from the subnet to the Internet API Version 2015 04 15 82 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Recommended Rules for Scenario 3 120 10 0 0 0 24 i 0 0 0 0 0 TCP all 49152 65535 all ALLOW Allows outbound responses to the public subnet for ex ample responses to web servers in the public subnet that are communicating with DB Servers in the private subnet See the important note at the beginning of this topic about specifying the correct ephem eral ports DENY Denies all outbound traffic not already handled by a preceding rule not modifi able Recommended Rules for Scenario 3 Scenario 3 is a public subnet with instances that can receive and send Internet traffic and a VPN only subnet with instances that can communicate only with your home network over the VPN connection For more information see Scenario 3 VPC with Public and Private Subnets and Hardware VPN Access p 32 For this scenario you have a network ACL for the public subnet and a separate one for the VPN only subnet The following table shows the rules we recommend for each ACL They block all traffic except that which is explicitly required ACL Rules for the Public Subnet Inbound Rule Source IP 100 0 0 0 0 0 110 0 0 0
5. Follow the remaining steps in the wizard to launch your instance On the Instances screen select your instance On the Description tab in the Public IP field you can view your instance s public IP address Alternatively in the navigation pane click Network Interfaces and then select the ethO network interface for your instance You can view the public IP address in the Public IPs field Note The public IP address is displayed as a property of the network interface in the console but it s mapped to the primary private IP address through NAT Therefore if you inspect the properties of your network interface on your instance for example through ipconfig on a Windows instance or ifconfig ona Linux instance the public IP address is not displayed To determine your instance s public IP address from within the instance you can use instance metadata For more information see Instance Metadata and User Data API Version 2015 04 15 118 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Elastic IP Addresses This feature is only available during launch However whether you assign a public IP address to your instance during launch or not you can associate an Elastic IP address with your instance after it s launched For more information see Elastic IP Addresses p 119 Elastic IP Addresses An Elastic IP address is a static public IP address designed for dynamic cloud computing You can associate an Elastic IP address with any instanc
6. c Click Add another rule then select SSH from the Type list Enter your network s public IP address range in the Source field d Click Add another rule then select RDP from the Type list Enter your network s public IP address range in the Source field e Click Save API Version 2015 04 15 28 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Implementing Scenario 2 Summary Inbound Rules Outbound Rules Tags Cancel ES Type Protocol Port Range Source Remove HTTP 80 TCP 80 0 0 0 0 0 i x HTTPS 443 TCP 443 0 0 0 0 0 i x SSH 22 gt TCP 6 22 192 0 2 0 24 i x RDP 3389 3389 192 0 2 0 24 i x Add another rule 3 On the Outbound Rules tab click Edit and add rules for outbound traffic as follows Locate the default rule that enables all outbound traffic and then click Remove Select MS SQL from the Type list In the Destination field specify the ID of the DBServerSG security group Click Add another rule then select MySQL from the Type list In the Destination field specify the ID of the DBServerSG security group Click Save Summary Inbound Rules Outbound Rules Tags Cancel save Type Protocol Port Range Destination Remove MS SQL 1433 TCP 6 1433 sg la2b3c4d i x MySQL 3306 TCP 6 3306 sg 1a2b3c4d i x Add another rule To add the recommended rules to the NATSG security group 1 Select the NATSG security group that you created The details pane displays the details for the security
7. ec2 modify instance attribute Amazon EC2 CLI e Edit EC2InstanceAttribute AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Remove a rule from a security group revoke security group ingress and revoke security group egress AWS CLI e ec2 revoke Amazon EC2 CLI e Revoke EC2SecurityGroupIngress and Revoke EC2SecurityGroupEgress AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Delete a security group e delete security group AWS CLI ec2 delete group Amazon EC2 CLI e Remove EC2SecurityGroup AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Network ACLs A network access contro list ACL is an optional layer of security that acts as a firewall for controlling traffic in and out of a subnet You might set up network ACLs with rules similar to your security groups in order to add an additional layer of security to your VPC For more information about the differences between security groups and network ACLs see Comparison of Security Groups and Network ACLs p 62 Topics Network ACL Basics p 71 Network ACL Rules p 71 Default Network ACL p 71 Example Custom Network ACL p 72 Ephemeral Ports p 74 Working with Network ACLs p 74 API and Command Overview p 131 API Version 2015 04 15 70 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Network ACL Basics Network ACL Basics The following are the basic things that you need to know about network ACLs A network ACL is a numbered list of rules that we evaluate in order starting with the low
8. wy Router VPC 10 0 0 0 16 p Virtual Private Gateway Internet Gateway Security Group a Subnet 10 0 1 0 24 Network ACL Routing Table API Version 2015 04 15 63 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Security Groups Security Groups for Your VPC A security group acts as a virtual firewall for your instance to control inbound and outbound traffic When you launch an instance in a VPC you can assign the instance to up to five security groups Security groups act at the instance level not the subnet level Therefore each instance in a subnet in your VPC could be assigned to a different set of security groups If you don t specify a particular group at launch time the instance is automatically assigned to the default security group for the VPC For each security group you add rules that control the inbound traffic to instances and a separate set of rules that control the outbound traffic This section describes the basics things you need to know about security groups for your VPC and their rules You might set up network ACLs with rules similar to your security groups in order to add an additional layer of security to your VPC For more information about the differences between security groups and network ACLs see Comparison of Security Groups and Network ACLs p 62 Topics e Security Group Basics p 64 Default Security Group for Your VPC p 64 e Security Group Rules p 65
9. Deny Resource arn aws s3 my_secure_bucket arn aws s3 my_secure_bucket Conditions f StringNotEquals aws sourceVpce vpce la2b3c4d Example Restricting Access to a Specific VPC You can create a bucket policy that restricts access to a specific VPC by using the aws sourceVpc condition This is useful if you have multiple endpoints configured in the same VPC and you want to manage access to your S3 buckets for all of your endpoints The following is an example of a policy that allows VPC vpc 111bbb22 to access my_secure_bucket and its objects The aws sourceVpc condition does not require an ARN for the VPC resource only the VPC ID Version 2012 10 17 Td Policy1415115909152 Statement Sid Access to specific VPC only Principal s Ma TACELONn T Ts3 sw Effect Deny Resource arn aws s3 my_secure_bucket arn aws s3 my_secure_bucket Condition StringNotEquals aws sourceVpc vpc 11llbbb22 API Version 2015 04 15 167 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Working with Endpoints Security Groups By default Amazon VPC security groups allow all outbound traffic unless you ve specifically restricted outbound access If your security group s outbound rules are restricted you must add a rule that allows outbound traffic from your VPC to the service that s specified in your endpoint To do this you can use the
10. The second statement grants users permissions to create the VPC peering connection resource and therefore uses the wildcard in place of a specific resource ID Version 2012 10 17 Statement Effect Allow Action ec2 CreateVpcPeeringConnection Resource arn aws ec2 region account vpc Condition StringEquals ec2 ResourceTag Purpose Peering Effect Allow Action ec2 CreateVpcPeeringConnection Resource arn aws ec2 region account vpc peering connection The following policy allows users in AWS account 333333333333 to create VPC peering connections using any VPC in the cn north 1 region but only if the VPC that will be accepting the peering connection is a specific VPC vpc aaal11bb in a specific account 777788889999 Version 2012 10 17 Statement Effect Allow Action ec2 CreateVpcPeeringConnection Resource arn aws ec2 cn north 1 333333333333 vpc Fy Effect Allow Action ec2 CreateVpcPeeringConnection Resource arn aws ec2 region 333333333333 vpc peering connection Condition y ArnEquals ec2 AccepterVpc arn aws ec2 region 777788889999 vpc vpc aaal11bb API Version 2015 04 15 94 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Example Policies for a CLI or SDK b Accept a VPC peering connection The following policy allow
11. Adding and Deleting Rules p 75 Associating a Subnet with a Network ACL p 76 Disassociating a Network ACL from a Subnet p 76 Changing a Subnet s Network ACL p 77 Deleting a Network ACL p 77 Determining Which Network ACL a Subnet Is Associated With To determine which network ACL a subnet is associated with 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc 2 Inthe navigation pane click Subnets and then select the subnet The network ACL associated with the subnet is included in the Network ACL tab along with the network ACL s rules API Version 2015 04 15 74 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Working with Network ACLs Determining Which Subnets Are Associated with a Network ACL To determine which subnets are associated with a network ACL 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc 2 Inthe navigation pane click Network ACLs The console displays your network ACLs The Associated With column indicates the number of associated subnets 3 Select a network ACL 4 Inthe details pane click the Subnet Associations tab to display the subnets associated with the network ACL Creating a Network ACL To create a network ACL Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click Network ACLs Click the Create Network ACL button In the Create Network ACL dialog box optionally name your network ACL and then sele
12. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide API Version 2015 04 15 amazon webservices Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Copyright 2015 Amazon Web Services Inc and or its affiliates All rights reserved Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Table of Contents What Is Amazon VPO accctoiteitestidccea a r a e a a a eO aeaa aE Eaa e a aE 1 Amazon VPO CONCED S siisie iriennerien iiaia nai e eaa aaea pelle a ia a a e aa a a ai in iiiaae i 1 MIPGS ANG SUDMCUS aran eeir a E E a E da EE ee Aime T i abe RENO 1 SUPPOFIEM Platform S aimera anae A aE e TEE E E EEA E E O S 2 Default and Nondefault VPCS 0 0 2 0 cceceeeee eee ee eee e eect eee ce eeeece eee eee eee ese eseeseeseeseeeeeseeseeseeeenaes 2 Accessing INE INTERNET wi nsiica tenet ecstsiemas tien ted dieigu aie new fours E E E EOE REEE E 2 Accessing a Corporate or Home Network ccceeeeee teen eee eee e eee eee eset etre eset eee een ee eea eed 4 How to Get Started with Amazon VPC 0 cece cece eee e eee cee e nent cece ects ce aces ese esse eseeseeseeaeeeeeeeeeeeaes 5 Services that Support Amazon VPC ce eee ee cece teeter eee eect eee reece ee eee ee eee ee esa ee ese eseeeeseeaeeeeeaes 6 ACCESSING AMAZON VPG ia ccawiannticncietentnnienticudipnenniiementice shied a E aa E EEE EE EEE aE 6 Pricing for Amazon VRC cessera inai nekai na a aE S E a aa OTe a ERS 7 Amazon VPC CIMIMIS eienn inne a E E
13. ec2 AttachInternetGateway ec2 AssociateRouteTable ec2 ModifyVp cAttribute ec2 DescribeKeyPairs ec2 DescribeImages ec2 AllocateAddress ec2 AssociateAddress ec2 DescribeInstances ec2 ModifyInstanceAttribute ec2 De scribeRouteTables ec2 DescribeVpnGateways ec2 DescribeVpcs l Resource Fy Effect Allow Action ec2 RunInstances Resource arn aws ec2 region image ami la2b3c4d arn aws ec2 region account instance arn aws ec2 region account subnet arn aws ec2 region account network interface arn aws ec2 region account volume arn aws ec2 region account key pair arn aws ec2 region account security group Option 3 VPC with public and private subnets and hardware VPN access The third VPC wizard configuration option creates a VPC with a public and private subnet and creates a VPN connection between your VPC and your own network In your IAM policy you must grant users permission to use the same actions as option 1 This allows them to create a VPC and two subnets and to configure the routing for the public subnet To create a VPN connection users must also have permission to use the following actions e ec2 CreateCustomerGateway To create a customer gateway e ec2 CreateVpnGateway and ec2 AttachVpnGateway To create a virtual private gateway and attach it to the VPC ec2 EnableVgwRoutePropagation To e
14. ec2 StartInstances ec2 TerminateInstances ec2 Describe Resource API Version 2015 04 15 90 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Example Policies for a CLI or SDK Example 4 Launching instances into a specific subnet The following policy grants users permission to launch instances into a specific subnet and to use a specific security group in the request The policy does this by specifying the ARN for subnet 1a2b3c4d and the ARN for sg 123abc123 If users attempt to launch an instance into a different subnet or using a different security group the request will fail unless another policy or statement grants users permission to do so The policy also grants permission to use the network interface resource When launching into a subnet the RunInstances request creates a primary network interface by default so the user needs permission to create this resource when launching the instance Version 2012 10 17 Statement Effect Allow Action ec2 RunInstances Resource arn aws ec2 region image ami arn aws ec2 region account instance arn aws ec2 region account subnet subnet la2b3c4da arn aws ec2 region account network interface arn aws ec2 region account volume arn aws ec2 region account key pair arn aws ec2 region account security group sg 123abc123 API Version 2015 04 15 91 Amazon Vir
15. 443 0 0 0 0 0 i x SSH 22 TCP 6 22 192 0 2 0 24 i x RDP 3389 TCP 6 3389 192 0 2 0 24 i x Add another rule Step 3 Launch an Instance into Your VPC When you launch an EC2 instance into a VPC you must specify the subnet in which to launch the instance In this case you ll launch an instance into the public subnet of the VPC you created You ll use the Amazon EC2 launch wizard in the Amazon EC2 console to launch your instance The following diagram represents the architecture of your VPC after you ve completed this step Destination Target 10 0 0 016 loca Destination Target local 10 0 0 076 Availability Zone 8 VPC 10 0 0 0 16 To launch an EC2 instance into a VPC 1 Open the Amazon EC2 console at hitps console amazonaws cn ec2 2 Inthe navigation bar on the top right ensure that you select the same region in which you created your VPC and security group 3 From the dashboard choose Launch Instance 4 On the first page of the wizard choose the AMI that you want to use For this exercise we recommend that you choose an Amazon Linux AMI or a Windows AMI 5 Onthe Choose an Instance Type page you can select the hardware configuration and size of the instance to launch By default the wizard selects the first available instance type based on the AMI API Version 2015 04 15 13 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Step 4 Assign an Elastic IP Address to Your Instance
16. API Version 2015 04 15 89 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Example Policies for a CLI or SDK Example 2 Read Only Policy for Amazon VPC The following policy grants users permission to list your VPCs and their components They can t create update or delete them Version 2012 10 17 Statement Effect Allow Action ec2 DescribeVpcs ec2 DescribeSubnets ec2 DescribeInternetGateways ec2 DescribeCustomerGateways ec2 DescribeVpnGateways ec2 DescribeVpnConnections ec2 DescribeRouteTables ec2 DescribeAddresses ec2 DescribeSecurityGroups ec2 DescribeNetworkAcls ec2 DescribeDhcpOptions ec2 DescribeTags ec2 DescribeInstances Resource Example 3 Custom Policy for Amazon VPC The following policy grants users permission to launch instances stop instances start instances terminate instances and describe the available resources for Amazon EC2 and Amazon VPC The second statement in the policy protects against any other policy that might grant the user access to a wider range of API actions by explicitly denying permissions Version 2012 10 17 Statement Effect Allow Action ec2 RunInstances ec2 StopInstances ec2 StartInstances ec2 TerminateInstances ec2 Describe Resource Effect Deny NotAction ec2 RunInstances ec2 StopInstances
17. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Working with Network ACLs 5 Select a rule from the Type list For example to add a rule for HTTP select the HTTP option To add a rule to allow all TCP traffic select All TCP For some of these options for example HTTP we fill in the port for you To use a protocol that s not listed select Custom protocol rule 6 Optional If you re creating a custom protocol rule select the protocol s number and name from the Protocol list For more information see IANA List of Protocol Numbers 7 Optional If the protocol you ve selected requires a port number enter the port number or port range separated by a hyphen for example 49152 65535 8 Inthe Source or Destination box depending on whether this is an inbound or outbound rule enter the CIDR range that the rule applies to 9 From the Allow Deny list select ALLOW to allow the specified traffic or DENY to deny the specified traffic 10 Optional To add another rule click Add another rule and repeat steps 4 to 9 as required 11 When you are done click Save To delete a rule from a network ACL 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc 2 Inthe navigation pane click Network ACLs and then select the network ACL 3 Inthe details pane select either the Inbound Rules or Outbound Rules tab and then click Edit Click the Remove button for the rule you want to delete and then click Save Associating a
18. Comments Allows outbound HTTP traffic from the subnet to the Inter net Allows outbound HTTPS traffic from the subnet to the Internet Allows outbound MS SQL access to database servers in the VPN only subnet Allows outbound MySQL ac cess to database servers in the VPN only subnet Allows outbound responses to clients on the Internet for example serving web pages to people visiting the web servers in the subnet See the important note at the beginning of this topic about specifying the correct ephem eral ports Denies all outbound traffic not already handled by a preceding rule not modifi able Comments API Version 2015 04 15 84 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Recommended Rules for Scenario 3 100 110 120 130 140 Outbound Rule 100 110 10 0 0 0 24 10 0 0 0 24 Private IP address range of your home network Private IP address range of your home network Private IP address range of your home network 0 0 0 0 0 Dest IP Private IP address range of your home network 10 0 0 0 24 TCP TCP TCP TCP TCP all Protocol All TCP 1433 3306 22 3389 49152 65535 all Port All 49152 65535 ALLOW ALLOW ALLOW ALLOW ALLOW DENY Allow Deny ALLOW ALLOW Allows web servers in the public subnet to read and write to MS SQL servers in the VPN only subnet Allows web servers in the public sub
19. For example the following indicates that the account supports the EC2 VPC platform only and has a default VPC with the identifier vpc 1a2b3c4d Supported Platforms VPC Default VPC vpc 1a2b3c4d If you delete your default VPC the Default VPC value displayed is None For more information see Deleting Your Default VPC p 61 API Version 2015 04 15 59 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Detecting Platform Support Using the Command Line Detecting Platform Support Using the Command Line The supported plat forms attribute indicates which platforms you can launch EC2 instances into To get the value of this attribute for your account use one of the following commands describe account attributes AWS CLI ec2 describe account attrioutes Amazon EC2 CLI e Get EC2AccouniAttributes AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Also when you list your VPCs using the following commands we indicate any default VPCs in the output describe vpcs AWS CLI ec2 describe vpcs Amazon EC2 CLI Get EC2Vpc AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Launching an EC2 Instance into Your Default VPC When you launch an EC2 instance without specifying a subnet it s automatically launched into a default subnet in your default VPC By default we select an Availability Zone for you and launch the instance into the corresponding subnet for that Availability Zone Alternatively you can select the Availability Zone for your instance by selecti
20. Internet For more information about subnets see Your VPC and Subnets p 47 and IP Addressing in Your VPC p 116 For more information about Internet gateways see Internet Gateways p 133 Tip If you d like instances in your VPC to communicate over the Internet without having to assign each instance an Elastic IP address you can use a NAT instance For more information about configuring a NAT instances see Scenario 2 VPC with Public and Private Subnets NAT p 22 or NAT Instances p 138 Routing for Scenario 1 Your VPC has an implied router shown in the configuration diagram for this scenario For this scenario the VPC wizard creates a route table that routes all traffic destined for an address outside the VPC to the Internet gateway and associates this route table with the subnet Otherwise you d need to create and associate the route table yourself The following table shows what the route table looks like for the example addresses used in the configuration diagram for this scenario The first row shows the entry for local routing in the VPC this entry enables the instances in this VPC to communicate with each other The second row shows the entry for routing all other subnet traffic to the Internet gateway which is specified using its AWS assigned identifier Destination Target 10 0 0 0 16 local 0 0 0 0 0 iQW XXXXXXXX Security for Scenario 1 AWS provides two features that you can use to increase security in your
21. The instances assigned to a security group can be in different subnets However in this scenario each security group corresponds to the type of role an instance plays and each role requires the instance to be in a particular subnet Therefore in this scenario all instances assigned to a security group are in the same subnet The WebServerSG security group is the security group that you ll specify when you launch your web servers into your public subnet The following table describes the recommended rules for this security group which allow the web servers to receive Internet traffic as well as SSH and RDP traffic from your network The web servers can also initiate read and write requests to the database servers in the private subnet Because the web server doesn t initiate outbound communication we ll remove the default outbound rule API Version 2015 04 15 25 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Security for Scenario 2 Note These recommendations include both SSH and RDP access and both Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL access For your situation you might only need rules for Linux SSH and MySQL or Windows RDP and Microsoft SQL Server WebServerSG Recommended Rules Inbound Source 0 0 0 0 0 TCP 0 0 0 0 0 TCP Your home network s public IP TCP address range Your home network s public IP TCP address range Outbound Destination The ID of your DBServerSG se TCP curity group The ID of your DBS
22. and an entry that enables instances in the subnet to communicate directly with the Internet The main route table associated with the private subnet The route table contains an entry that enables instances in the subnet to communicate with other instances in the VPC and an entry that enables instances in the subnet to communicate with the Internet through the NAT instance For more information about subnets see Your VPC and Subnets p 47 and IP Addressing in Your VPC p 116 For more information about Internet gateways see Internet Gateways p 133 For more information about NAT see NAT Instances p 138 Tip To help manage the instances in the private subnet you can set up bastion servers in the public subnet to act as proxies For example you can set up SSH port forwarders or RDP gateways in the public subnet to proxy the traffic going to your database servers from your own network Routing for Scenario 2 Your VPC has an implied router shown in the configuration diagram for this scenario For this scenario the VPC wizard updates the main route table used with the private subnet and creates a custom route table and associates it with the public subnet Otherwise you d need to create and associate the route tables yourself In this scenario all traffic from each subnet that is bound for AWS for example to the Amazon EC2 or Amazon S3 endpoints goes over the Internet gateway The database servers in the private subnet c
23. ao 5 API Version 2015 04 15 139 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Setting up the NAT Instance Create the NATSG security group see Creating the NATSG Security Group p 141 You ll specify this security group when you launch the NAT instance Launch an instance into your public subnet from an AMI that s been configured to run as a NAT instance Amazon provides Amazon Linux AMls that are configured to run as NAT instances These AMls include the string amzn ami vpc nat in their names so you can search for them in the Amazon EC2 console a Open the Amazon EC2 console b On the dashboard click the Launch Instance button and complete the wizard as follows i On the Choose an Amazon Machine Image AMI page select the Community AMIs category and search for anzn ami vpc nat In the results list each AMI s name includes the version to enable you to select the most recent AMI for example 2013 09 Click Select ii On the Choose an Instance Type page select the instance type then click Next Configure Instance Details iii On the Configure Instance Details page select the VPC you created from the Network list and select your public subnet from the Subnet list iv Optional Select the Public IP check box to request that your NAT instance receives a public IP address If you choose not to assign a public IP address now you can allocate an Elastic IP address and assign it to your instance after it s launched Fo
24. choose Your VPCs or choose Subnets 3 Select your VPC or subnet choose the Flow Logs tab and then Create Flow Log Note To create flow logs for multiple VPCs choose the VPCs and then select Create Flow Log from the Actions menu To create flow logs for multiple subnets choose the subnets and then select Create Flow Log from the Subnet Actions menu 4 Inthe dialog box complete following information When you are done choose Create Flow Log Filter Select whether the flow log should capture rejected traffic accepted traffic or all traffic Role Specify the name of an IAM role that has permission to publish logs to CloudWatch Logs Destination Log Group Enter the name of a log group in CloudWatch Logs to which the flow logs will be published You can use an existing log group or you can enter a name for a new log group which we ll create for you Viewing Flow Logs You can view information about your flow logs in the Amazon EC2 and Amazon VPC consoles by viewing the Flow Logs tab for a specific resource When you select the resource all the flow logs for that resource are listed The information displayed includes the ID of the flow log the flow log configuration and information about the status of the flow log To view information about your flow logs for your network interfaces 1 Open the Amazon EC2 console at https console amazonaws cn ec2 In the navigation pane choose Network Interfaces 3 Select a n
25. click Edit Locate the default rule that enables all outbound traffic click Remove and then click Save 3 Launch an instance into the VPC API Version 2015 04 15 21 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Scenario 2 VPC with Public and Private Subnets NAT a Open the Amazon EC2 console at https console amazonaws cn ec2 From the dashboard click the Launch Instance button c Follow the directions in the wizard Choose an AMI choose an instance type and then click Next Configure Instance Details d On the Configure Instance Details page select the VPC that you created in step 1 from the Network list and then specify a subnet e Optional By default instances launched into a nondefault VPC are not assigned a public IP address To be able to connect to your instance you can assign a public IP address now or allocate an Elastic IP address and assign it to your instance after it s launched To assign a public IP address now ensure that you select Enable from the Auto assign Public IP list Note You can only assign a public IP address to a single new network interface with the device index of eth0 For more information see Assigning a Public IP Address During Launch p 118 f On the next two pages of the wizard you can configure storage for your instance and add tags On the Configure Security Group page select the Select an existing security group option and select the WebServerSG security group that yo
26. consoles or APIs to create the flow logs you must use the Amazon EC2 console or the Amazon EC2 API Similarly you cannot use the CloudWatch Logs console or API to create log streams for your network interfaces If you no longer require a flow log you can delete it Deleting a flow log disables the flow log service for the resource and no new flow log records or log streams are created It does not delete any existing flow log records or log streams for a network interface To delete an existing log stream you can use the CloudWatch Logs console After you ve deleted a flow log it can take several minutes to stop collecting data Flow Log Limitations To use flow logs you need to be aware of the following limitations e You cannot enable flow logs for network interfaces that are in the EC2 Classic platform This includes EC2 Classic instances that have been linked to a VPC through ClassicLink You cannot enable flow logs for VPCs that are peered with your VPC unless the peer VPC is in your account You cannot tag a flow log After you ve created a flow log you cannot change its configuration for example you can t associate a different IAM role with the flow log Instead you can delete the flow log and create a new one with the required configuration API Version 2015 04 15 107 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Flow Log Records None of the flow log API actions ec2 F lowLogs support resource level permissions If
27. ec2 disassociate route table Amazon EC2 CLI e Unregister EC2RouteTable AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Change the route table associated with a subnet replace route table association AWS CLI ec2 replace route table association Amazon EC2 CLI e Set EC2RouteTableAssociation AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Create a static route associated with a VPN connection create vpn connection route AWS CLI ec2 create vpn connection route Amazon EC2 CLI e New EC2VpnConnectionRoute AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Delete a static route associated with a VPN connection delete vpn connection route AWS CLI ec2 delete vpn connection route Amazon EC2 CLI e Remove EC2VpnConnectionRoute AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell API Version 2015 04 15 132 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Internet Gateways Enable a virtual private gateway VGW to propagate routes to the routing tables of a VPC enable vgw route propagation AWS CLI ec2 enable vgw route propagation Amazon EC2 CLI e Enable EC2VgwRoutePropagation AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Disable a VGW from propagating routes to the routing tables of a VPC e disable vgw route propagation AWS CLI ec2 disable vgw route propagation Amazon EC2 CLI e Disable EC2VgwRoutePropagation AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Delete a route table e delete route table AWS CLI ec2 delete route table Amazon EC2 CLI e Remove EC2RouteTable AWS Tool
28. new one When you are done choose Update Trust Policy Working With Flow Logs You can work with flow logs using the Amazon EC2 Amazon VPC and CloudWatch consoles Topics Creating a Flow Log p 111 e Viewing Flow Logs p 111 Deleting a Flow Log p 112 API Version 2015 04 15 110 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Working With Flow Logs Creating a Flow Log You can create a flow log from the VPC page and the Subnet page in the Amazon VPC console or from the Network Interfaces page in the Amazon EC2 console To create a flow log for a network interface Open the Amazon EC2 console at https console amazonaws cn ec2 In the navigation pane choose Network Interfaces Select a network interface choose the Flow Logs tab and then Create Flow Log In the dialog box complete following information When you are done choose Create Flow Log PONS Filter Select whether the flow log should capture rejected traffic accepted traffic or all traffic Role Specify the name of an IAM role that has permission to publish logs to CloudWatch Logs Destination Log Group Enter the name of a log group in CloudWatch Logs to which the flow logs will be published You can use an existing log group or you can enter a name for a new log group which we ll create for you To create a flow log for a VPC or a subnet 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane
29. not the Internet gateway and therefore does not access the Elastic IP address or public IP address The instance V2 can t reach the Internet but can reach other instances in the VPC You can allow an instance in your VPC to initiate outbound connections to the Internet but prevent unsolicited inbound connections from the Internet using a network address translation NAT instance Because you can allocate a limited number of Elastic IP addresses we recommend that you use a NAT instance if you have more instances that require a static public IP address For more information see NAT Instances p 138 The route table associated with subnet 3 routes all traffic 0 0 0 0 0 to a virtual private gateway for example vgw 1a2b3c4qd Subnet Security AWS provides two features that you can use to increase security in your VPC security groups and network ACLs Both features enable you to control the inbound and outbound traffic for your instances but security groups work at the instance level while network ACLs work at the subnet level Security groups alone can meet the needs of many VPC users However some VPC users decide to use both security groups and network ACLs to take advantage of the additional layer of security that network ACLs provide For more information about security groups and network ACLs and how they differ see Security in Your VPC p 62 By design each subnet must be associated with a network ACL Every subnet that you cr
30. the Configure Security Group page select the Select an existing security group option and select a security group for the instance WebServerSG for a web server or DBServerSG for a database server Click Review and Launch Review the settings that you ve chosen Make any changes that you need and then click Launch to choose a key pair and launch your instance If you did not assign a public IP address to your instance in step 5 you will not be able to connect to it Before you can access an instance in your public subnet you must assign it an Elastic IP address To allocate an Elastic IP address and assign it to an instance using the console 2 ON Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click Elastic IPs Click the Allocate New Address button Click Yes Allocate Note If your account supports EC2 Classic first choose EC2 VPC from the Network platform list Select the Elastic IP address from the list and then click the Associate Address button In the Associate Address dialog box select the network interface or instance Select the address to associate the Elastic IP address with from the corresponding Private IP address list and then click Yes Associate You can now connect to your instances in the VPC For information about how to connect to a Linux instance see Connect to Your Linux Instance in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances For information about how to
31. the Source field b Click Add another rule then select MYSQL from the Type list and specify the ID of your WebServerSG security group in the Source field c Click Save On the Outbound Rules tab click Edit and add rules for outbound traffic as follows a Locate the default rule that enables all outbound traffic and then click Remove Select HTTP from the Type list In the Destination field enter 0 0 0 0 0 c Click Add another rule then select HTTPS from the Type list In the Destination field enter 0 0 0 0 0 d Click Save When the VPC wizard launched the NAT instance it used the default security group for the VPC You need to associate the NAT instance with the NATSG security group instead To change the security group of the NAT instance 1 Open the Amazon EC2 console at https console amazonaws cn ec2 In the navigation pane click Network Interfaces Select the network interface for the NAT instance from the list and then select Change Security Groups from the Actions list In the Change Security Groups dialog box select the NATSG security group that you created see Security for Scenario 2 p 25 from the Security groups list and then click Save You can launch instances into your VPC If you re already familiar with launching instances outside a VPC then you already know most of what you need to know to launch an instance into a VPC To launch an instance web server or database server 1 Cre
32. 0 0 120 Public IP ad dress range of your home net work 130 Public IP ad dress range of your home net work Protocol TCP TCP TCP TCP Port 80 443 22 3389 Allow Deny Comments ALLOW Allows inbound HTTP traffic to the web servers from any where ALLOW Allows inbound HTTPS traffic to the web servers from anywhere ALLOW Allows inbound SSH traffic to the web servers from your home network over the Inter net gateway ALLOW Allows inbound RDP traffic to the web servers from your home network over the Inter net gateway API Version 2015 04 15 83 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Recommended Rules for Scenario 3 140 Outbound Rule 100 110 120 130 140 ACL Settings for the VPN Only Subnet Inbound Rule 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Dest IP 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 1 0 24 10 0 1 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Source IP TCP all Protocol TCP TCP TCP TCP TCP all Protocol 49152 65535 all Port 80 443 1433 3306 49152 65535 all Port ALLOW DENY Allow Deny ALLOW ALLOW ALLOW ALLOW ALLOW DENY Allow Deny Allows inbound return traffic from requests originating in the subnet See the important note at the beginning of this topic about specifying the correct ephem eral ports Denies all inbound traffic not already handled by a preced ing rule not modifiable
33. 0 i gw XXXXXXXX Security for Scenario 2 AWS provides two features that you can use to increase security in your VPC security groups and network ACLs Both features enable you to control the inbound and outbound traffic for your instances but security groups work at the instance level while network ACLs work at the subnet level Security groups alone can meet the needs of many VPC users However some VPC users decide to use both security groups and network ACLs to take advantage of the additional layer of security that network ACLs provide For more information about security groups and network ACLs and how they differ see Security in Your VPC p 62 For scenario 2 you ll use security groups but not network ACLs If you d like to use a network ACL see Recommended Rules for Scenario 2 p 80 Recommended Security Groups Your VPC comes with a default security group whose initial settings deny all inbound traffic allow all outbound traffic and allow all traffic between instances assigned to the group If you don t specify a security group when you launch an instance the instance is automatically assigned to this default security group For this scenario we recommend that you create the following security groups instead of modifying the default security group WebServerSG For the web servers in the public subnet NATSG For the NAT instance in the public subnet DBServerSG For the database servers in the private subnet
34. 10 0 0 128 10 0 0 255 There are many tools available to help you calculate subnet CIDR blocks For information about a commonly used tool see htip www subnet calculator com cidr php Also your network engineering group can help you determine the CIDR blocks to specify for your subnets Important AWS reserves both the first four IP addresses and the last IP address in each subnet CIDR block they re not available for you to use For example in a subnet with CIDR block 10 0 0 0 24 the following IP addresses are reserved 10 0 0 0 10 0 0 1 10 0 0 2 10 0 0 3 and10 0 0 255 Subnet Routing By design each subnet must be associated with a route table which specifies the allowed routes for outbound traffic leaving the subnet Every subnet that you create is automatically associated with the main route table for the VPC You can change the association and you can change the contents of the main route table For more information see Route Tables p 123 In the previous diagram the route table associated with subnet 1 routes all traffic 0 0 0 0 0 to an Internet gateway for example igw 1a2b3c4d Because instance V1 has an Elastic IP address it can be reached from the Internet Note The Elastic IP address or public IP address that s associated with your instance is accessed through the Internet gateway of your VPC Traffic that goes through a VPN connection between your instance and another network traverses a virtual private gateway
35. 166 To control the routing of traffic between your VPC and the other service you can specify one or more route tables that are used by the VPC to reach the endpoint Subnets that use these route tables have access to the endpoint and traffic from instances in these subnets to the service is then routed through the endpoint You can also use the VPC wizard on the dashboard of the Amazon VPC console to create a new VPC and request an endpoint for the service that you specify After you ve created an endpoint you can modify the policy that s attached to your endpoint and add or remove the route tables that are used by the endpoint You can create multiple endpoints in a single VPC for example to multiple services You can also create multiple endpoints for a single service and you can use different route tables to enforce different access policies from different subnets to the same service Topics Routing for Endpoints p 161 Endpoints for Amazon S3 p 163 e Endpoint Limitations p 165 Routing for Endpoints When you create or modify an endpoint you specify the VPC route tables that must be used to access the service via the endpoint A route is automatically added to each of the route tables with a destination that specifies the prefix list ID of the service p1 xxxxxxxx and a target with the endpoint ID vpce xxxxxxxx The prefix list ID logically represents the range of public IP addresses used by the service All insta
36. 2015 04 15 44 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Implementing Scenario 4 For more information about which option to choose see Amazon Virtual Private Cloud FAQs For more information about dynamic versus static routing see VPN Routing Options p 174 When the wizard is done click VPN Connections in the navigation pane Select the VPN connection that the wizard created and click Download Configuration In the dialog box select the vendor for the customer gateway the platform and the software version and then click Yes Download Save the text file containing the VPN configuration and give it to the network administrator along with this guide Amazon VPC Network Administrator Guide The VPN won t work until the network administrator configures the customer gateway For this scenario you need to update the default security group with new inbound rules that allow SSH and Remote Desktop RDP access from your network If the instances won t initiate outbound communication we can also remove the default outbound rule Reminder the initial settings of the default security group block all inbound traffic allow all outbound traffic and allow instances assigned to the group to communicate with each other To update the rules for the default security group 1 2 4 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpo Click Security Groups in the navigation pane and then select the default security grou
37. AWS account multiple VPN connections per VPC Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft SQL Server Reserved Instances 13 Septem ber 2012 13 Septem ber 2012 29 Septem ber 2011 03 August 2011 API Version 2015 04 15 198 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Feature Dedicated Instances API Ver Description sion 2011 02 Dedicated Instances are Amazon EC2 instances 28 launched within your VPC that run hardware dedic ated to a single customer Dedicated Instances let you take full advantage of the benefits of Amazon VPC and AWS elastic provisioning pay only for what you use and a private isolated virtual net work all while isolating your instances at the hardware level Release Date 27 March 2011 API Version 2015 04 15 199 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide AWS Glossary Blank placeholder This page redirects to the AWS Glossary in the AWS General Reference API Version 2015 04 15 200
38. Allows inbound SSH traffic from your home network over the Internet gateway ALLOW Allows inbound RDP traffic from your home network over the Internet gateway API Version 2015 04 15 80 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Recommended Rules for Scenario 2 140 Outbound Rule 100 110 120 130 140 150 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Dest IP 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 1 0 24 10 0 1 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 1 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 TCP all Protocol TCP TCP TCP TCP TCP TCP all ACL Rules for the Private Subnet Inbound 49152 65535 all Port 80 443 1433 3306 49152 65535 22 all ALLOW DENY Allow Deny ALLOW ALLOW ALLOW ALLOW ALLOW ALLOW DENY Allows inbound return traffic from requests originating in the subnet See the important note at the beginning of this topic about specifying the correct ephem eral ports Denies all inbound traffic not already handled by a preced ing rule not modifiable Comments Allows outbound HTTP traffic from the subnet to the Inter net Allows outbound HTTPS traffic from the subnet to the Internet Allows outbound MS SQL access to database servers in the private subnet Allows outbound MySQL ac cess to database servers in the private subnet Allows outbound responses to clients on the Internet for example serving web pages to people visiting the web servers in the su
39. Amazon EC2 console at https console amazonaws cn ec2 Terminate all instances in the subnet For more information see Terminate Your Instance in the EC2 User Guide Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane choose Subnets Select the subnet to delete choose Subnet Actions and then choose Delete In the Delete Subnet dialog box choose Yes Delete N e E CLI Overview You can perform the tasks described on this page using a command line interface CLI For more information including a list of available API actions see Accessing Amazon VPC p 6 Create a VPC create vpc AWS CLI ec2 create vpc Amazon EC2 CLI e New EC2Vpc AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Create a Subnet e create subnet AWS CLI ec2 create subnet Amazon EC2 CLI e New EC2Subnet AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Describe a VPC describe vpcs AWS CLI e ec2 describe vpcs Amazon EC2 CLI Get EC2Vpc AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Describe a Subnet e describe subnets AWS CLI e ec2 describe subnets Amazon EC2 CLI e Get EC2Subnet AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Delete a VPC delete vpc AWS CLI ec2 delete vpc Amazon EC2 CLI e Remove EC2Vpc AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Delete a Subnet e delete subnet AWS CLI e ec2 delete subnet Amazon EC2 CLI API Version 2015 04 15 55 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide CLI Overview e Remove EC
40. Cloud User Guide Network Interfaces e Use the associate public ip address option with the ec2 run instances command Amazon EC2 CLI e Use the AssociatePublicIp parameter with the New EC2Instance command AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Modify a subnet s public IP addressing behavior modify subnet attribute AWS CLI ec2 modify subnet attripute Amazon EC2 CLI e Edit EC2SubnetAttrioute AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Using Elastic Network Interfaces with Your VPC An elastic network interface ENI is a virtual network interface that can include the following attributes aprimary private IP address one or more secondary private IP addresses one Elastic IP address per private IP address one public IP address which can be auto assigned to the network interface for ethO when you launch an instance but only when you create a network interface for ethO instead of using an existing network interface one or more security groups e a MAC address a source destination check flag a description You can create an ENI attach it to an instance detach it from an instance and attach it to another instance An ENI s attributes follow the ENI as it is attached or detached from an instance and reattached to another instance When you move an ENI from one instance to another network traffic is redirected to the new instance Each instance in your VPC has a default elastic network interface the primary networ
41. CloudHub you must create a virtual private gateway with multiple customer gateways each with unique Border Gateway Protocol BGP Autonomous System Numbers ASNs Customer gateways advertise the appropriate routes BGP prefixes over their VPN connections These routing advertisements are received and re advertised to each BGP peer enabling each site to send data to and receive data from the other sites The routes for each spoke must have unique ASNs and the sites must not have overlapping IP ranges Each site can also send and receive data from the VPC as if they were using a standard VPN connection Sites that use AWS Direct Connect connections to the virtual private gateway can also be part of the AWS VPN CloudHub For example your corporate headquarters in New York can have an AWS Direct Connect connection to the VPC and your branch offices can use VPN connections to the VPC The branch offices in Los Angeles and Miami can send and receive data with each other and with your corporate headquarters all using the AWS VPN CloudHub To configure the AWS VPN CloudHub you use the AWS Management Console to create multiple customer gateways each with the unique public IP address of the gateway and a unique ASN Next you create a VPN connection from each customer gateway to a common virtual private gateway Each VPN connection must advertise its specific BGP routes This is done using the network statements in the VPN configuration files for the VPN c
42. DHCP options describe dhcp options AWS CLI e ec2 describe dhcp options Amazon EC2 CLI e Get EC2DhcpOption AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Deletes a set of DHCP options e delete dhcp options AWS CLI e ec2 delete dhcp options Amazon EC2 CLI e Remove EC2DhcpOption AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Using DNS with Your VPC Amazon EC2 instances need IP addresses to communicate Public IP addresses enable communication over the Internet while private IP addresses enable communication within the network of the instance either EC2 Classic or a VPC Domain Name System DNS is a standard by which names used on the Internet are resolved to their corresponding IP addresses A DNS hostname is a name that uniquely and absolutely names a computer API Version 2015 04 15 149 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Viewing DNS Hostnames for Your EC2 Instance it s composed of a host name and a domain name DNS servers resolve DNS hostnames to their corresponding IP addresses We provide an Amazon DNS server To use your own DNS server update the DHCP options set for your VPC For more information see DHCP Options Seis p 145 To enable an EC2 instance to be publicly accessible it must have a public IP address a DNS hostname and DNS resolution Topics e Viewing DNS Hostnames for Your EC2 Instance p 150 Updating DNS Support for Your VPC p 151 Using Private Hosted Zones p 152 Viewing DNS Hostnames
43. Internet bound traffic from instances in a private subnet as well as SSH traffic from your network The NAT instance can also send traffic to the Internet which enables the instances in the private subnet to get software updates NATSG Recommended Rules Inbound Source Protocol Port Range Comments 10 0 1 0 24 TCP 80 Allow inbound HTTP traffic from serv ers in the private subnet 10 0 1 0 24 TCP 443 Allow inbound HTTPS traffic from servers in the private subnet Public IP address range of your TCP 22 Allow inbound SSH access to the NAT home network instance from your home network over the Internet gateway Outbound Destination Protocol Port Range Comments 0 0 0 0 0 TCP 80 Allow outbound HTTP access to the Internet 0 0 0 0 0 TCP 443 Allow outbound HTTPS access to the Internet To create the NATSG security group 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc 2 Click Security Groups in the navigation pane 3 Click the Create Security Group button API Version 2015 04 15 141 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Disabling Source Destination Checks 4 Inthe Create Security Group dialog box specify NATSG as the name of the security group and provide a description Select the ID of your VPC from the VPC list and then click Yes Create 5 Select the NATSG security group that you just created The details pane displays the details for the security group plus tabs for working with its inb
44. Security p 53 Adding a Subnet to Your VPC p 54 Launching an Instance into Your Subnet p 54 Deleting Your Subnet p 54 API Version 2015 04 15 50 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Your VPC with Subnets Your VPC with Subnets The following diagram shows a VPC that has been configured with subnets in multiple Availability Zones You can optionally add an Internet gateway to enable communication over the Internet or a virtual private network VPN connection to enable communication with your network as shown in the diagram If a subnet s traffic is routed to an Internet gateway the subnet is known as a public subnet In this diagram subnet 1 is a public subnet If you want your instance in a public subnet to communicate with the Internet it must have a public IP address or an Elastic IP address For more information about public IP addresses see Public and Private IP Addresses p 116 If a subnet doesn t have a route to the Internet gateway the subnet is known as a private subnet In this diagram subnet 2 is a private subnet If a subnet doesn t have a route to the Internet gateway but has its traffic routed to a virtual private gateway the subnet is known as a VPN only subnet In this diagram subnet 3 is a VPN only subnet Note Regardless of the type of subnet the internal IP address range of the subnet is always private we do not announce the address block to the Internet For more information see I
45. Security Group p 67 e Creating a Security Group p 67 Adding and Removing Rules p 67 e Changing an Instance s Security Groups p 68 Deleting a Security Group p 68 Deleting the 2009 07 15 default Security Group p 69 Modifying the Default Security Group Your VPC includes a default security group whose initial rules are to deny all inbound traffic allow all outbound traffic and allow all traffic between instances in the group You can t delete this group however you can change the group s rules The procedure is the same as modifying any other security group For more information see Adding and Removing Rules p 67 Creating a Security Group Although you can use the default security group for your instances you might want to create your own groups to reflect the different roles that instances play in your system To create a security group Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click Security Groups Click the Create Security Group button Enter a name of the security group for example my security group and provide a description Select the ID of your VPC from the VPC menu and then click Yes Create Pow MS By default new security groups start with only an outbound rule that allows all traffic to leave the instances You must add rules to enable any inbound traffic or to restrict the outbound traffic Adding and Removing Rules When you add or remov
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47. User Guide Updating DNS Support for Your VPC To view DNS hostnames for a network interface using the command line You can use one of the following commands For more information about these command line interfaces see Accessing Amazon VPC p 6 e describe network interfaces AWS CLI ec2 describe network interfaces Amazon EC2 CLI e Get EC2NetworkInterface AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Updating DNS Support for Your VPC When you launch an instance into a VPC we provide the instance with public and private DNS hostnames only if DNS hostnames are enabled for the VPC By default DNS hostnames are enabled only for default VPCs and VPCs that you create using the VPC wizard in the VPC console We support the following VPC attributes to control DNS support Be sure to set both attributes to true if you want your instances to have public DNS hostnames that are accessible from the Internet Attribute Description enableDnsHostnames Indicates whether the instances launched in the VPC get DNS hostnames If this attribute is true instances in the VPC get DNS hostnames other wise they do not If you want your instances to get DNS hostnames you must also set the enableDns Support attribute to true enableDnsSupport Indicates whether the DNS resolution is supported for the VPC If this attribute is false the Amazon provided DNS service in the VPC that resolves public DNS hostnames to IP addresses is not en abled If this attr
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49. VPC in the Amazon EC2 User Guide API Version 2015 04 15 119 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Elastic IP Addresses Working with Elastic IP Addresses You can allocate an Elastic IP address and then associate it with an instance in a VPC To allocate an Elastic IP address for use in a VPC Open the Amazon VPC console In the navigation pane click Elastic IPs Click the Allocate New Address bution Click Yes Allocate Note If your account supports EC2 Classic first choose EC2 VPC from the Network platform list es To view your Elastic IP addresses 1 Open the Amazon VPC console Click Elastic IPs in the navigation pane 3 To filter the displayed list start typing part of the Elastic IP address or the ID of the instance to which it s assigned in the search box To associate an Elastic IP address with a running instance in a VPC 1 Open the Amazon VPC console Click Elastic IPs in the navigation pane 3 Select an Elastic IP address that s allocated for use with a VPC the Scope column has a value of vpc and then click the Associate Address button 4 Inthe Associate Address dialog box select Instance or Network Interface from the Associate with list and then either the instance or network interface ID Select the private IP address to associate the Elastic IP address with from the Private IP address list and then click Yes Associate Note A network interface can have several attributes includin
50. VPC and one that you use in EC2 Classic For more information see Differences Between EC2 Classic and Amazon EC2 VPC in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances You can move an Elastic IP address from one instance to another The instance can be in the same VPC or another VPC but not in EC2 Classic Your Elastic IP addresses remain associated with your AWS account until you explicitly release them To ensure efficient use of Elastic IP addresses we impose a small hourly charge when they aren t associated with a running instance or when they are associated with a stopped instance or an unattached network interface While your instance is running you aren t charged for one Elastic IP address associated with the instance but you are charged for any additional Elastic IP addresses associated with the instance For more information see Amazon EC2 Pricing You re limited to 5 Elastic IP addresses to help conserve them you can use a NAT instance see NAT Instances p 138 An Elastic IP address is accessed through the Internet gateway of a VPC If you have set up a VPN connection between your VPC and your network the VPN traffic traverses a virtual private gateway not an Internet gateway and therefore cannot access the Elastic IP address You can migrate an Elastic IP address that you ve allocated for use in the EC2 Classic platform to the VPC platform For more information see Migrating an Elastic IP Address from EC2 Classic to EC2
51. VPC with Public and Private Subnets and Hardware VPN Access and then click Select On the first page of the wizard confirm the details for your VPC public and private subnets and then click Next On the Configure your VPN page do the following and then click Create VPC In Customer Gateway IP specify the public IP address of your VPN router Optionally specify a name for your customer gateway and VPN connection In Routing Type select one of the routing options as follows If your VPN router supports Border Gateway Protocol BGP select Dynamic requires BGP API Version 2015 04 15 37 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Implementing Scenario 3 If your VPN router does not support BGP click Static In IP Prefix add each IP prefix for your network For more information about which option to choose see Amazon Virtual Private Cloud FAQs For more information about dynamic versus static routing see VPN Routing Options p 174 When the wizard is done click VPN Connections in the navigation pane Select the VPN connection that the wizard created and click Download Configuration In the dialog box select the vendor for the customer gateway the platform and the software version and then click Yes Download Save the text file containing the VPN configuration and give it to the network administrator along with this guide Amazon VPC Network Administrator Guide The VPN won t work until the network admin
52. Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Comparison of Security Groups and Network ACLs Security Group Operates at the instance level first layer of de fense Supports allow rules only Is stateful Return traffic is automatically allowed regardless of any rules We evaluate all rules before deciding whether to allow traffic Applies to an instance only if someone specifies the security group when launching the instance or associates the security group with the instance later on Network ACL Operates at the subnet level second layer of de fense Supports allow rules and deny rules Is stateless Return traffic must be explicitly allowed by rules We process rules in number order when deciding whether to allow traffic Automatically applies to all instances in the subnets it s associated with backup layer of defense so you don t have to rely on someone specifying the security group The following diagram illustrates the layers of security provided by security groups and network ACLs For example traffic from an Internet gateway is routed to the appropriate subnet using the routes in the routing table The rules of the network ACL associated with the subnet control which traffic is allowed to the subnet The rules of the security group associated with an instance control which traffic is allowed to the instance gt Q Subnet 10 0 0 0 24 Network ACL Routing Table Security Group
53. You can associate one network ACL to one or more subnets in a VPC This limit is not the same as the number of rules per network ACL Rules per network ACL 20 This is the one way limit for a single network ACL where the limit for ingress rules is 20 and the limit for egress rules is 20 BGP Advertised Routes per VPN Connection 100 This limit cannot be increased If you require more than 100 prefixes advertise a default route API Version 2015 04 15 195 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Resource Active VPC peering connections per VPC Outstanding VPC peering connection re quests Expiry time for an unaccepted VPC peering connection request VPC endpoints per region Default limit 50 25 1 week 168 hours 20 Flow logs per single network interface single 2 subnet or single VPC in a region Comments This limit can be increased via special re quest to AWS Support The maximum limit is 125 peering connections per VPC The number of entries per route table should be increased accordingly however network performance may be impacted This is the limit for the number of outstanding VPC peering connection requests that you ve requested from your account This limit can be increased via special request to AWS Support This limit can be increased via special re quest to AWS Support This limit can be increased upon request up to a maximum of 255 endpoints per VPC You can effec
54. Your VPC Your VPC automatically comes with a default security group Each EC2 instance that you launch in your VPC is automatically associated with the default security group if you don t specify a different security group when you launch the instance API Version 2015 04 15 64 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Security Group Rules The following table describes the default rules for a default security group Inbound Source Protocol Port Range Comments The security group ID All All Allow inbound traffic from instances SQ XXXXXXXX assigned to the same security group Outbound Destination Protocol Port Range Comments 0 0 0 0 0 All All Allow all outbound traffic You can change the rules for the default security group You can t delete a default security group If you try to delete the default security group you ll get the following error Client CannotDelete the specified group sg 51530134 name default cannot be deleted by a user Security Group Rules You can add or remove rules for a security group also referred to as authorizing or revoking inbound or outbound access A rule applies either to inbound traffic ingress or outbound traffic egress You can grant access to a specific CIDR range or to another security group in your VPC The following are the basic parts of a security group rule Inbound rules only The source of the traffic CIDR range or security group and the destination port o
55. a route to the Internet gateway API Version 2015 04 15 124 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Route Table Association Route Table Association The main route table is the default table that subnets use if they re not explicitly associated with another table When you add a new subnet it automatically uses the routes specified in the main route table You can change which table is the main route table and thus change the default for additional new subnets Subnets can be implicitly or explicitly associated with the main route table Subnets typically won t have an explicit association to the main route table although it might happen temporarily if you re replacing the main route table You might want to make changes to the main route table but to avoid any disruption to your traffic you decide to first test the route changes using a custom route table After you re satisfied with the testing you then replace the main route table with the new custom table The following diagram shows a VPC with two subnets that are implicitly associated with the main route table Route Table A and a custom route table Route Table B that isn t associated with any subnets Subnet 1 Subnet 2 Route Route Table A Table B Main You can create an explicit association between Subnet 2 and Route Table B __ Router a Subnet 2 Subnet 1 Route Route Table A Table B Main After you ve tested Route Table B
56. basic components presented in the configuration diagram for this scenario e A virtual private cloud VPC of size 16 example CIDR 10 0 0 0 16 This provides 65 536 private IP addresses e A public subnet of size 24 example CIDR 10 0 0 0 24 This provides 256 private IP addresses e A private subnet of size 24 example CIDR 10 0 1 0 24 This provides 256 private IP addresses API Version 2015 04 15 23 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Routing for Scenario 2 An Internet gateway This connects the VPC to the Internet and to other AWS products e Instances with private IP addresses in the subnet range examples 10 0 0 5 10 0 1 5 which enables them to communicate with each other and other instances in the VPC Instances in the public subnet also have Elastic IP addresses example 198 51 100 1 which enable them to be reached from the Internet Instances in the private subnet are back end servers that don t need to accept incoming traffic from the Internet however they can send requests to the Internet using the NAT instance see the next bullet A network address translation NAT instance with its own Elastic IP address This enables instances in the private subnet to send requests to the Internet for example for software updates A custom route table associated with the public subnet This route table contains an entry that enables instances in the subnet to communicate with other instances in the VPC
57. connect to a Windows instance see Connect to Your Windows Instance in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Microsoft Windows Instances API Version 2015 04 15 31 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Scenario 3 VPC with Public and Private Subnets and Hardware VPN Access Scenario 3 VPC with Public and Private Subnets and Hardware VPN Access The configuration for this scenario includes a virtual private cloud VPC with a public subnet and a private subnet and a virtual private gateway to enable communication with your own network over an IPsec VPN tunnel We recommend this scenario if you want to extend your network into the cloud and also directly access the Internet from your VPC This scenario enables you to run a multi tiered application with a scalable web front end in a public subnet and to house your data in a private subnet that is connected to your network by an IPsec VPN connection Topics e Configuration for Scenario 3 p 32 Basic Configuration for Scenario 3 p 33 e Routing for Scenario 3 p 33 e Security for Scenario 3 p 35 e Implementing Scenario 3 p 37 Configuration for Scenario 3 The following diagram shows the key components of the configuration for this scenario ben Destination Target Web Servers Public subnet 10 0 0 0 24 VPN Connection Customer Gateway Customer Network Destination Target Database VPN only subRet gt 10 0 1 0 24
58. create a VPC The wizard performs the following steps for you Creates a VPC with a 16 CIDR block a network with 65 536 private IP addresses For more information about CIDR notation and the sizing of a VPC see Your VPC p 47 Attaches an Internet gateway to the VPC For more information about Internet gateways see Internet Gateways p 133 Creates a size 24 subnet a range of 256 private IP addresses in the VPC Creates a custom route table and associates it with your subnet so that traffic can flow between the subnet and the Internet gateway For more information about route tables see Route Tables p 123 The following diagram represents the architecture of your VPC after you ve completed this step Custom Route Table Destination Target 10 0 0 0 16 kcal 0 00 00 igaid ateway Destination Target local Availabilty Zone A moi A a 10 0 0 016 Avatabiity Zone B VPC 10 0 0 0 16 Note This exercise covers the first scenario in the VPC wizard For more information about the other scenarios see Scenarios for Amazon VPC To create a VPC using the Amazon VPC Wizard 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc 2 Inthe navigation bar on the top right take note of the region in which you ll be creating the VPC Ensure that you continue working in the same region for the rest of this exercise as you cannot launch an instance into your VPC from a diffe
59. create route AWS CLI e ec2 create route Amazon EC2 CLI e New EC2Route AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell e CreateRoute Replace a route in a route table replace route AWS CLI e ec2 replace route Amazon EC2 CLI Set EC2Route AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell e ReplaceRoute Controlling Access to VPC Peering Connections By default IAM users cannot create or modify VPC peering connections You can create an IAM policy that grants users permission to create or modify VPC peering connections and you can control which resources users have access to during those requests For more information about IAM policies for Amazon EC2 see IAM Policies for Amazon EC2 in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances For example policies for working with VPC peering connections see Controlling Access to Amazon VPC Resources p 87 Endpoints AVPC endpoint enables you to create a private connection between your VPC and another AWS service without requiring access over the Internet through a NAT instance a VPN connection or AWS Direct Connect Endpoints are virtual devices They are horizontally scaled redundant and highly available VPC components that allow communication between instances in your VPC and AWS services without imposing availability risks or bandwidth constraints on your network traffic Important Currently we support endpoints for connections with Amazon S3 within the same region only We ll add support for other A
60. create the flow log the type of traffic to capture accepted traffic rejected traffic or all traffic the name of a log group in CloudWatch Logs to which the flow log will be published and the ARN of an IAM role that has sufficient permission to publish the flow log to the CloudWatch Logs log group If you specify the name of a log group that does not exist we ll attempt to create the log group for you After you ve created a flow log it can take several minutes to begin collecting data and publishing to CloudWatch Logs Flow logs do not capture real time log streams for your network interfaces You can create multiple flow logs that publish data to the same log group in CloudWatch Logs If the same network interface is present in one or more flow logs in the same log group it has one combined log stream If you ve specified that one flow log should capture rejected traffic and the other flow log should capture accepted traffic then the combined log stream captures all traffic If you launch more instances into your subnet after you ve created a flow log for your subnet or VPC then a new log stream is created for each new network interface as soon as any network traffic is recorded for that network interface You can create flow logs for network interfaces that are created by other AWS services for example Elastic Load Balancing Amazon RDS Amazon ElastiCache Amazon Redshift and Amazon WorkSpaces However you cannot use these services
61. dialog box choose Yes Delete PONE API and Command Overview You can perform the tasks described on this page using the command line or an API For more information about the command line interfaces and a list of available API actions see Accessing Amazon VPC p 6 API Version 2015 04 15 137 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide NAT Instances NAT Create an Internet gateway create internet gateway AWS CLI ec2 create internet gateway Amazon EC2 CLI e New EC2InternetGateway AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Attach an Internet gateway to a VPC attach internet gateway AWS CLI ec2 attach internet gateway Amazon EC2 CLI e Add EC2InternetGateway AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Describe an Internet gateway describe internet gateways AWS CLI e ec2 describe internet gateways Amazon EC2 CLI e Get EC2InternetGateway AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Detach an Internet gateway from a VPC e detach internet gateway AWS CLI e ec2 detach internet gateway Amazon EC2 CLI e Dismount EC2InternetGateway AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Delete an Internet gateway delete internet gateway AWS CLI e ec2 delete internet gateway Amazon EC2 CLI e Remove EC2InternetGateway AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Instances Instances that you launch into a private subnet in a virtual private cloud VPC can t communicate with the Internet You can optionally use a network address translation
62. e DescribePrefixLists Amazon EC2 Query API Modify a VPC endpoint modify vpc endpoint AWS CLI ec2 modify vpc endpoint Amazon EC2 CLI Edit EC2VpcEndpoint AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell e ModifyVpcEndpoint Amazon EC2 Query API Describe your VPC endpoints e describe vpc endpoints AWS CLI ec2 describe vpc endpoints Amazon EC2 CLI e Get EC2VpcEndpoint AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell e DescribeVpcEndpoints Amazon EC2 Query API Get a list of available AWS services for creating a VPC endpoint describe vpc endpoint services AWS CLI ec2 describe vpc endpoint services Amazon EC2 CLI e Get EC2VpcEndpointService AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell e DescribeVpcEndpointServices Amazon EC2 Query API Delete a VPC endpoint e delete vpc endpoints AWS CLI ec2 delete vpc endpoints Amazon EC2 CLI e Remove EC2VpcEndpoint AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell e DeleteVpcEndpoints Amazon EC2 Query API API Version 2015 04 15 171 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Adding a Hardware Virtual Private Gateway to Your VPC By default instances that you launch into a virtual private cloud VPC can t communicate with your own network You can enable access to your network from your VPC by attaching a virtual private gateway to the VPC creating a custom route table and updating your security group rules You can complete this process manually as described on this page or let the VPC creati
63. for communication or a bandwidth bottleneck AVPC peering connection can help you to facilitate the transfer of data for example if you have more than one AWS account you can peer the VPCs across those accounts to create a file sharing network You can also use a VPC peering connection to allow other VPCs to access resources you have in one of your VPCs For more examples of scenarios in which you can use a VPC peering connection see the Amazon VPC Peering Guide Topics e VPC Peering Basics p 153 Working with VPC Peering Connections p 155 API and CLI Overview p 159 Controlling Access to VPC Peering Connections p 160 VPC Peering Basics To establish a VPC peering connection the owner of the requester VPC or local VPC sends a request to the owner of the peer VPC to create the VPC peering connection The peer VPC can be owned by you or another AWS account and cannot have a CIDR block that overlaps with the requester VPC s CIDR block The owner of the peer VPC has to accept the VPC peering connection request to activate the VPC peering connection To enable the flow of traffic between the peer VPCs using private IP addresses add a route to one or more of your VPC s route tables that points to the IP address range of the peer VPC The owner of the peer VPC adds a route to one of their VPC s route tables that points to the IP address range of your VPC You may also need to update the security group rules that are associated
64. group plus tabs for working with its inbound and outbound rules 2 On the Inbound Rules tab click Edit and add rules for inbound traffic as follows a b Select HTTP from the Type list and enter the IP address range of your private subnet in the Source field Click Add another rule then select HTTPS from the Type list and enter the IP address range of your private subnet in the Source field Click Add another rule then select SSH from the Type list Enter your network s public IP address range in the Source field Click Save 3 On the Outbound Rules tab click Edit and add rules for outbound traffic as follows a Locate the default rule that enables all outbound traffic and then click Remove API Version 2015 04 15 29 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Implementing Scenario 2 b Select HTTP from the Type list In the Destination field enter 0 0 0 0 0 c Click Add another rule then select HTTPS from the Type list In the Destination field enter 0 0 0 0 0 d Click Save To add the recommended rules to the DBServerSG security group 1 2 Select the DBServerSG security group that you created The details pane displays the details for the security group plus tabs for working with its inbound and outbound rules On the Inbound Rules tab click Edit and add rules for inbound traffic as follows a Select MS SQL from the Type list and specify the ID of your WebServerSG security group in
65. id The AWS account ID for the flow log interface id The ID of the network interface for which the log stream applies srcaddr The source IP address The IP address of the network interface is always its private IP address dstaddr The destination IP address The IP address of the network interface is always its private IP address srcport The source port of the traffic dstport The destination port of the traffic protocol The IANA protocol number of the traffic For more information go to Assigned Internet Protocol Numbers packets The number of packets transferred during the capture window bytes The number of bytes transferred during the capture window start The time in Unix seconds of the start of the capture window end The time in Unix seconds of the end of the capture window API Version 2015 04 15 108 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide IAM Roles for Flow Logs Field Description action The action associated with the traffic ACCEPT The recorded traffic was permitted by the security groups or network ACLs REJECT The recorded traffic was not permitted by the security groups or network ACLs log status The logging status of the flow log eit OK Data is logging normally to CloudWatch Logs NODATA There was no network traffic to or from the network interface during the capture window SKIPDATA Some flow log records were skipped during the
66. instance has an Elastic IP address and is connected to the Internet through an Internet gateway You can connect an instance in a private subnet to the Internet through the NAT instance which routes traffic from the instance to the Internet gateway and routes any responses to the instance For more information about routing and NAT in your VPC see Route Tables p 123 and NAT Instances p 138 Accessing a Corporate or Home Network You can optionally connect your VPC to your own corporate data center using an IPsec hardware VPN connection making the AWS cloud an extension of your data center A VPN connection consists of a virtual private gateway attached to your VPC and a customer gateway located in your data center A virtual private gateway is the VPN concentrator on the Amazon side of the VPN connection A customer gateway is a physical device or software appliance on your side of the VPN connection API Version 2015 04 15 4 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide How to Get Started with Amazon VPC 10 0 0 5 Destination Target 10 0 0 6 EC2 Instances 0 0 0 0 0 vgw id Subnet 1 3 10 0 0 0 24 VPN Connection 10 0 1 5 10 0 1 6 10 0 1 7 Corporate Network Main Route Table Destination Target 10 0 0 0 16 local EC2 Instances Subnet 2 10 0 1 0 24 Availability Zone B 10 0 0 0 16 For more information see Adding a Hardware Virtual Pri
67. must select static routing and enter the routes IP prefixes for your network that should be communicated to the virtual private gateway Only IP prefixes that are known to the virtual private gateway whether through BGP advertisement or static route entry can receive traffic from your VPC We recommend that you use BGP capable devices when available because the BGP protocol offers robust liveness detection checks that can assist failover to the second VPN tunnel if the first tunnel goes down Devices that don t support BGP may also perform health checks to assist failover to the second tunnel when needed What You Need for a VPN Connection To use Amazon VPC with a VPN connection you or your network administrator must designate a physical appliance as your customer gateway and configure it We provide you with the required configuration information including the VPN preshared key and other parameters related to setting up the VPN connection Your network administrator typically performs this configuration For information about the customer gateway requirements and configuration see the Amazon VPC Network Administrator Guide The following table lists the information that you need to have so that we can establish your VPN connection Item How Used Comments The type of customer gateway Specifies how to format the re For information about the specific for example Cisco ASA Juniper turned information that you use devices that we
68. network interface 1 Open the Amazon EC2 console at htips console amazonaws cn ec2 2 Inthe navigation pane choose Network Interfaces and then select the network interface 3 Choose the Flow Logs tab and then choose the delete button a cross for the flow log to delete 4 Inthe confirmation dialog box choose Yes Delete To delete a flow log for a VPC or subnet 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc 2 Inthe navigation pane choose Your VPCs or choose your Subnets and then select the resource 3 Choose the Flow Logs tab and then choose the delete button a cross for the flow log to delete 4 Inthe confirmation dialog box choose Yes Delete Troubleshooting Incomplete Flow Log Records If your flow log records are incomplete or are no longer being published there may be a problem delivering the flow logs to the CloudWatch Logs log group In either the Amazon EC2 console or the Amazon VPC console go to the Flow Logs tab for the relevant resource For more information see Viewing Flow Logs p 111 The flow logs table displays any errors in the Status column Alternatively use the describe flow logs command and check the value that s returned in the DeliverLogsErrorMessage field One of the following errors may be displayed API Version 2015 04 15 112 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide API and CLI Overview Rate limited CloudWatch logs throttling has been applied Th
69. on your security and operational needs A public subnet is a subnet that has access to the Internet through an Internet gateway Create a security group for your instance that allows traffic only through specific ports Launch an Amazon EC2 instance into your subnet Associate an Elastic IP address with your instance This allows your instance to access the Internet Before you can use Amazon VPC for the first time you must sign up for Amazon Web Services AWS When you sign up your AWS account is automatically signed up for all services in AWS including Amazon VPC If you haven t created an AWS account already go to http www amazonaws cn and then choose Create a Free Account Note This exercise assumes that your account supports the EC2 VPC platform only If your account also supports the older EC2 Classic platform you can still follow the steps in this exercise however you will not have a default VPC in your account to compare against your nondefault VPC For more information see Supported Platforms p 2 Contents Step 1 Create the VPC p 9 Step 2 Create a Security Group p 11 Step 3 Launch an Instance into Your VPC p 13 Step 4 Assign an Elastic IP Address to Your Instance p 14 Step 5 Clean Up p 15 API Version 2015 04 15 8 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Step 1 Create the VPC Step 1 Create the VPC In this step you ll use the Amazon VPC wizard in the Amazon VPC console to
70. or modify your security groups as needed For more information see Security Groups for Your VPC p 64 Optional Create or modify your network ACLs as needed For more information about network ACLs see Network ACLs p 70 Launching an Instance into Your Subnet To launch an instance into your subnet 1 Start the launch wizard a Open the Amazon EC2 console at https console amazonaws cn ec2 b On the dashboard choose Launch Instance Follow the directions in the wizard Select an AMI choose an instance type and then choose Next Configure Instance Details On the Configure Instance Details page ensure you have selected the required VPC in the Network list then select the subnet to launch the instance into Keep the other default settings on this page and choose Next Add Storage On the next pages of the wizard you can configure storage for your instance and add tags On the Configure Security Group page choose from any existing security group that you own or follow the wizard directions to create a new security group Choose Review and Launch when you re done Review your settings and choose Launch Choose an existing key pair that you own or create a new one then choose Launch Instances when you re done Deleting Your Subnet You must terminate any instances in the subnet first API Version 2015 04 15 54 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide CLI Overview To delete your subnet Open the
71. ports 49152 65535 For more information about how to select the appropriate ephemeral port range see Ephemeral Ports p 74 Allow Deny ALLOW DENY The network ACL also includes inbound rules that allow SSH and RDP traffic into the subnet The outbound rule 120 enables responses to egress the subnet The network ACL has outbound rules 100 and 110 that allow outbound HTTP and HTTPS traffic out of the subnet There s a corresponding inbound rule that enables responses to that outbound traffic inbound rule 140 which covers ephemeral ports 49152 65535 Note Each network ACL includes a default rule whose rule number is an asterisk This rule ensures that if a packet doesn t match any of the other rules it s denied You can t modify or remove this rule Inbound Rule 100 110 120 130 140 Source IP Protocol Port 0 0 0 0 0 TCP 80 ALLOW 0 0 0 0 0 TCP 443 ALLOW 192 0 2 0 24 TCP 22 ALLOW 192 0 2 0 24 TCP 3389 ALLOW 0 0 0 0 0 TCP 49152 ALLOW 65535 Allow Deny Comments Allows inbound HTTP traffic from anywhere Allows inbound HTTPS traffic from anywhere Allows inbound SSH traffic from your home network s public IP address range over the Internet gateway Allows inbound RDP traffic to the web servers from your home network s public IP address range over the Inter net gateway Allows inbound return traffic from the Internet that is for requests that originate in the subnet For
72. provided by EC2 VPC and is ready for you to use If you have a default VPC and don t specify a subnet when you launch an instance the instance is launched into your default VPC You can launch instances into your default VPC without needing to know anything about Amazon VPC For more information see Your Default VPC and Subnets p 57 and Launching an EC2 Instance into Your Default VPC p 60 Regardless of which platforms your account supports you can create your own VPC and configure it as you need This is known as a nondefault VPC Subnets that you create in your nondefault VPC and additional subnets that you create in your default VPC are called nondefault subnets Accessing the Internet You control how the instances that you launch into a VPC access resources outside the VPC Your default VPC includes an Internet gateway and each default subnet is a public subnet Each instance that you launch into a default subnet has a private IP address and a public IP address These instances can communicate with the Internet through the Internet gateway An Internet gateway enables your instances to connect to the Internet through the Amazon EC2 network edge API Version 2015 04 15 2 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Accessing the Internet Private 172 31 0 5 Public 203 0 113 1 EC2 Instance Default Subnet 1 172 31 0 0 20 Private 172 31 16 5 Public 203 0 113 23 Destination Target 172 31 0 016 l
73. public IP address TCP 3389 Allow inbound RDP access to Win range dows instances from your network over the Internet gateway Outbound Destination Protocol Port Range Comments The ID of the security group for TCP 1433 Allow outbound Microsoft SQL Server your database servers access to instances in the specified security group The ID of the security group for TCP 3306 Allow outbound MySQL access to in your MySQL database servers stances in the specified security group For step by step directions for creating security groups for web servers and database servers see Recommended Security Groups p 35 For more information about creating security group rules to ensure that Path MTU Discovery can function correctly see Path MTU Discovery in the Amazon EC2 User Guide Differences Between Security Groups for EC2 Classic and EC2 VPC If you re already an Amazon EC2 user you re probably familiar with security groups However you can t use the security groups that you ve created for use with EC2 Classic with instances in your VPC You must create security groups specifically for use with instances in your VPC The rules you create for use with a security group for a VPC can t reference a security group for EC2 Classic and vice versa The following table summarizes the differences between security groups for use with EC2 Classic and those for use with EC2 VPC EC2 Classic EC2 VPC You can create up to 500 security groups per re You ca
74. required for this scenario before you add rules to them To create the WebServerSG NATSG and DBServerSG security groups Be e A a Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click Security Groups Click the Create Security Group button In the Create Security Group dialog box specify WebServerSG as the name of the security group and provide a description Select the ID of your VPC from the VPC list and then click Yes Create Click the Create Security Group button again In the Create Security Group dialog box specify NATSG as the name of the security group and provide a description Select the ID of your VPC from the VPC list and then click Yes Create Click the Create Security Group button again In the Create Security Group dialog box specify DBServerSG as the name of the security group and provide a description Select the ID of your VPC from the VPC list and then click Yes Create To add rules to the WebServerSG security group 1 Select the WebServerSG security group that you created The details pane displays the details for the security group plus tabs for working with its inbound and outbound rules On the Inbound Rules tab click Edit and add rules for inbound traffic as follows a Select HTTP from the Type list and enter 0 0 0 0 0 in the Source field b Click Add another rule then select HTTPS from the Type list and enter 0 0 0 0 0 in the Source field
75. rules we recommended They block all traffic except that which is explicitly required Inbound Rule 100 110 120 130 140 Outbound Rule 100 Source IP 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Public IP ad dress range of your home net work Public IP ad dress range of your home net work 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Dest IP 0 0 0 0 0 Protocol TCP TCP TCP TCP TCP all Protocol TCP Port 80 443 22 3389 49152 65535 all Port 80 Allow Deny ALLOW ALLOW ALLOW ALLOW ALLOW DENY Allow Deny ALLOW Comments Allows inbound HTTP traffic from anywhere Allows inbound HTTPS traffic from anywhere Allows inbound SSH traffic from your home network over the Internet gateway Allows inbound RDP traffic from your home network over the Internet gateway Allows inbound return traffic from requests originating in the subnet See the important note at the beginning of this topic about specifying the correct ephem eral ports Denies all inbound traffic not already handled by a preced ing rule not modifiable Comments Allows outbound HTTP traffic from the subnet to the Inter net API Version 2015 04 15 79 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Recommended Rules for Scenario 2 110 0 0 0 0 0 120 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TCP TCP all 443 49152 65535 all ALLOW Allows outbound HTTPS traffic from the subnet to the Inter
76. s public IP address attribute Therefore instances that you launch into a default subnet can automatically communicate with the Internet For more information see Your Default VPC and Subnets p 57 Instances that you launch into a nondefault subnet may or may not be able to communicate with the Internet depending on how you create and configure your VPC For example if you use the VPC wizard to create your VPC depending on the option that you select the VPC wizard adds an Internet gateway to your VPC and updates the route table so that your instances can communicate with the Internet For more information about using the VPC wizard to create a subnet with an Internet gateway see Scenario 1 VPC with a Single Public Subnet p 17 or Scenario 2 VPC with Public and Private Subnets NAT p 22 Instances that you launch into a nondefault subnet do not receive a public IP address by default and therefore can t communicate with the Internet unless you specifically assign one during launch or you modify the subnet s public IP address attribute For more information about assigning a public IP address at launch see Assigning a Public IP Address During Launch p 118 For more information about modifying your subnet s public IP addressing attribute see Modifying Your Subnet s Public IP Addressing Behavior p 117 When you add a new subnet to your VPC you must set up the routing and security that you want for the subnet Creating a VPC wit
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78. service s prefix list ID as the destination in the outbound rule For more information see Modifying Your Security Group p 169 Working with Endpoints You can use the Amazon VPC console to create and manage endpoints Topics e Creating an Endpoint p 168 e Modifying Your Security Group p 169 e Modifying an Endpoint p 169 e Describing Your Endpoints p 170 Deleting an Endpoint p 170 Creating an Endpoint To create an endpoint you must specify the VPC in which you want to create the endpoint and the service to which you want to establish the connection You can also attach a policy to the endpoint and specify the route tables that will be used by the endpoint To create an endpoint Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane choose Endpoints Choose Create Endpoint In the first step of the wizard complete the following information and then choose Next Step Pon gt Select a VPC in which to create the endpoint and the service to which you want to connect Currently only the Amazon S3 service is available e Choose the type of policy You can leave the default option Full Access to allow full access to the service Alternatively you can select Custom and then use the AWS Policy Generator to create a custom policy or type your own policy in the policy window 5 Inthe second step of the wizard select the route tables that will be used by the endpoin
79. t reach the Internet directly any Internet bound traffic must first traverse the virtual private gateway to your network where the traffic is then subject to your firewall and corporate security policies If the instances send any AWS bound traffic for example requests to the Amazon S3 or Amazon EC2 APIs the requests must go over the virtual private gateway to your network and then egress to the Internet before reaching AWS Tip Any traffic from your network going to an Elastic IP address for an instance in the public subnet goes over the Internet and not over the virtual private gateway You could instead set up a route and security group rules that enable the traffic to come from your network over the virtual private gateway to the public subnet API Version 2015 04 15 33 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Routing for Scenario 3 The VPN connection is configured either as a statically routed VPN connection or as a dynamically routed VPN connection using BGP If you select static routing you ll be prompted to manually enter the IP prefix for your network when you create the VPN connection If you select dynamic routing the IP prefix is advertised automatically to the virtual private gateway for your VPC using BGP The following tables describe the route tables for this scenario Main Route Table The first row describes the entry for local routing in the VPC this entry enables the instances in the VPC to communicate with e
80. the VPC with the instance tenancy set to dedicated all instances launched into this VPC are Dedicated Instances e Create the VPC with the instance tenancy set to default and specify dedicated tenancy for any instances that should be Dedicated Instances when you launch them Dedicated Instances Limitations Some AWS services or their features won t work with a VPC with the instance tenancy set to dedicated Check the service s documentation to confirm if there are any limitations Some instance types cannot be launched into a VPC with the instance tenancy set to dedicated For more information about supported instances types see Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances Amazon EBS with Dedicated Instances When you launch an Amazon EBS backed Dedicated Instance the EBS volume doesn t run on single tenant hardware Reserved Instances with Dedicated Tenancy To guarantee that sufficient capacity will be available to launch Dedicated Instances you can purchase Dedicated Reserved Instances For more information about Reserved Instances see On Demand and Reserved Instances When you purchase a Dedicated Reserved Instance you are purchasing the capacity to launch a Dedicated Instance into a VPC at a much reduced usage fee the price break in the hourly charge applies only if you launch an instance with dedicated tenancy However if you purchase a Reserved Instance with a default tenancy value you won t get a Dedicated Reserved Instance if you laun
81. the check box as required and then click Save Assigning a Public IP Address During Launch You can control whether your instance in a default or nondefault subnet is assigned a public IP address during launch This feature is only available if you re launching an instance with a single new network interface with the device index of 0 Important You can t manually disassociate the public IP address from your instance after launch Instead it s automatically released in certain cases after which you cannot reuse it If you require a persistent public IP address that you can associate or disassociate at will associate an Elastic IP address with the instance after launch instead For more information see Elastic IP Addresses p 119 To access the public IP addressing feature when launching an instance Open the Amazon EC2 console Click Launch Instance Choose an AMI and click its Select button then choose an instance type and click Next Configure Instance Details On the Configure Instance Details page if a VPC is selected in the Network list the Auto assign Public IP list is displayed Select Enable or Disable to override the default setting for the subnet Important A public IP address can only be assigned to a single new network interface with the device index of ethO The Auto assign Public IP list is not available if you re launching with multiple network interfaces or if you select an existing network interface for ethO
82. the list and then click Save You don t need to restart or relaunch the instances They automatically pick up the changes within a few hours depending on how frequently the instance renews its DHCP lease If you want you can explicitly renew the lease using the operating system on the instance API Version 2015 04 15 148 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide API and Command Overview Deleting a DHCP Options Set When you no longer need a DHCP options set use the following procedure to delete it The VPC must not be using the set of options To delete a DHCP options set Open the Amazon VPC console Click DHCP Options Sets in the navigation pane Select the set of DHCP options to delete and then click Delete In the Delete DHCP Options Set dialog box click Yes Delete PO NS API and Command Overview You can perform the tasks described on this page using the command line or an API For more information about the command line interfaces and a list of available APIs see Accessing Amazon VPC p 6 Create a set of DHCP options for your VPC create dhcp options AWS CLI ec2 create dhcp options Amazon EC2 CLI e New EC2DhcpOption AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Associate a set of DHCP options with the specified VPC or no DHCP options associate dhcp options AWS CLI ec2 associate dhcp options Amazon EC2 CLI e Register EC2DhcpOption AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Describes one or more sets of
83. the set of IP addresses for the VPC in the form of a Classless Inter Domain Routing CIDR block for example 10 0 0 0 16 For more information about CIDR notation and what 1 6 means see Classless Inter Domain Routing on Wikipedia For information about the number of VPCs that you can create see Amazon VPC Limits p 194 Topics e Your New VPC p 47 e VPC Sizing p 48 Connections with Your Local Network and Other VPCs p 49 e Creating a VPC p 49 Deleting Your VPC p 50 Your New VPC The following diagram shows a new VPC with a default route table API Version 2015 04 15 47 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide VPC Sizing Availability Zone A Main Route Table Destination Target 10 0 0 0 16 local Availability Zone B Availability Zone C 10 0 0 0 16 You need to add a subnet before you can launch an instance into your VPC VPC Sizing You can assign a single CIDR block to a VPC The allowed block size is between a 28 netmask and 16 netmask In other words the VPC can contain from 16 to 65 536 IP addresses You can t change the size of a VPC after you create it If your VPC is too small to meet your needs create a new larger VPC and then migrate your instances to the new VPC To do this create AMIs from your running instances and then launch replacement instances in your new larger VPC You can then terminate your old instances and delete your smaller VPC For more information s
84. to the default security group to allow SSH traffic Linux and Remote Desktop traffic Windows from your network Important The default security group automatically allows assigned instances to communicate with each other so you don t have to add a rule to allow this If you use a different security group you must add a rule to allow this API Version 2015 04 15 43 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Implementing Scenario 4 The following table describes the inbound rules that you should add to the default security group for your VPC Default Security Group Recommended Rules Inbound Source Protocol Port Range Comments Private IP address range of your TCP 22 Linux instances Allow inbound SSH network traffic from your network Private IP address range of your TCP 3389 Windows instances Allow inbound network RDP traffic from your network Implementing Scenario 4 Use the following process to implement scenario 4 using the VPC wizard To prepare your customer gateway 1 Determine the appliance you ll use as your customer gateway For information about the devices that we ve tested see Amazon Virtual Private Cloud FAQs For more information about the requirements for your customer gateway see the Amazon VPC Network Administrator Guide Obtain the Internet routable IP address for the customer gateway s external interface The address must be static and may be behind a device performing network address trans
85. up a VPN connection you need to complete the following steps API Version 2015 04 15 177 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Create a Customer Gateway Step 1 Create a Customer Gateway p 178 Step 2 Create a Virtual Private Gateway p 178 Step 3 Enable Route Propagation in Your Route Table p 178 Step 4 Update Your Security Group to Enable Inbound SSH RDP and ICMP Access p 179 Step 5 Create a VPN Connection and Configure the Customer Gateway p 179 Step 6 Launch an Instance Into Your Subnet p 180 These procedures assume that you have a VPC with one or more subnets and that you have the required network information see What You Need for a VPN Connection p 175 Create a Customer Gateway To create a customer gateway 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc 2 Inthe navigation pane click Customer Gateways and then click Create Customer Gateway 3 Inthe Create Customer Gateway dialog box complete the following and then click Yes Create Inthe Name tag field optionally enter a name for your customer gateway Doing so creates a tag with a key of Name and the value that you specify Select the routing type from the Routing list If you selected dynamic routing enter the Border Gateway Protocol BGP Autonomous System Number ASN in the BGP ASN field Enter the static Internet routable IP address for your customer gateway device in the IP Address fiel
86. with your home network over a VPN connection For a more information see Scenario 4 VPC with a Private Subnet Only and Hardware VPN Access p 41 The following table shows the rules we recommended They block all traffic except that which is explicitly required Inbound Rule 100 110 120 Outbound Rule Source IP Private IP address range of your home network Private IP address range of your home network Private IP address range of your home network 0 0 0 0 0 Dest IP Protocol TCP TCP TCP Protocol Port 22 3389 49152 65535 all Port Allow Deny ALLOW ALLOW ALLOW DENY Allow Deny Comments Allows inbound SSH traffic to the subnet from your home network Allows inbound RDP traffic to the subnet from your home network Allows inbound return traffic from requests originating in the subnet See the important note at the beginning of this topic about specifying the correct ephem eral ports Denies all inbound traffic not already handled by a preced ing rule not modifiable Comments API Version 2015 04 15 86 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Conirolling Access 100 Private IP All All ALLOW Allows all outbound traffic address from the subnet to your range of home network your home network 120 Private IP TCP 49152 ALLOW Allows outbound responses address 65535 to clients in the home net range of work your home See the i
87. within the same region This allows you to associate the VPC security groups with the EC2 Classic instance enabling communication between your EC2 Classic instance and instances in your VPC using private IP addresses ClassicLink removes the need to make use of public IP addresses or Elastic IP addresses to enable communication between instances in these platforms For more information about private and public IP addresses see IP Addressing in Your VPC p 116 ClassicLink is available to all users with accounts that support the EC2 Classic platform and can be used with any EC2 Classic instance There is no additional charge for using ClassicLink Standard charges for data transfer and instance hour usage apply For more information about ClassicLink and how to use it see the following topics in the Amazon EC2 User Guide e ClassicLink Basics e ClassicLink Limitations e Working with ClassicLink e ClassicLink API and CLI Overview API Version 2015 04 15 193 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Amazon VPC Limits The following table lists the limits related to Amazon VPC Unless indicated otherwise you can request an increase for any of these limits by using the Amazon VPC Limits form Resource Default Comments limit VPCs per region 5 This limit can be increased upon request The limit for Internet gateways per region is directly correlated to this one Increasing this limit will increase the limit on Internet g
88. you need to find the range of IP addresses used by client computers The default security group fora VPC has rules that automatically allow assigned instances to communicate with each other To allow that type of communication between the instances in your VPC you must add a rule like the following to your security groups Inbound Source Protocol Port Range Comments The security group ID All All Allow inbound traffic from other in SQ XXXXXXXxX stances assigned to this security group Implementing Scenario 1 Use the following process to implement the scenario using the VPC wizard To implement scenario 1 using the VPC wizard 1 Setup the VPC subnet and Internet gateway API Version 2015 04 15 20 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Implementing Scenario 1 a Open the Amazon VPC console at htips console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click VPC Dashboard c Locate the Your Virtual Private Cloud area of the dashboard and click Get started creating a VPC if you have no VPC resources or click Start VPC Wizard Select the first option VPC with a Single Public Subnet and then click Select e The confirmation page shows the CIDR ranges and settings that you ve chosen Make any changes that you need and then click Create VPC to create your VPC subnet Internet gateway and route table 2 Create the WebServerSG security group and add rules Open the Amazon VPC console at htips console amazona
89. you want to create an IAM policy to control the use of the flow log API actions you must grant users permission to use all resources for the action by using the wildcard for the resource element in your statement For more information see Controlling Access to Amazon VPC Resources p 87 Flow logs do not capture all types of IP traffic The following types of traffic are not logged Traffic generated by instances when they contact the Amazon DNS server If you use your own DNS server then all traffic to that DNS server is logged e Traffic generated by a Windows instance for Amazon Windows license activation e Traffic to and from 169 254 169 254 for instance metadata e DHCP traffic Flow Log Records A flow log record represents a network flow in your flow log Each record captures the network flow for a specific 5 tuple for a specific capture window A 5 tuple is a set of 5 different values that specify the source destination and protocol for an Internet protocol IP flow The capture window is a duration of time during which the flow logs service aggregates data before publishing flow log records The capture window is approximately 10 minutes but can take up to 15 minutes A flow log record is a space separated string that has the following format version account id interface id srcaddr dstaddr srcport dstport protocol packets bytes start end action log status Field Description version The VPC flow logs version account
90. your instance you can test that your resource in your private hosted zone is accessible from its custom DNS name by using the ping command for example ping mywebserver example com You must ensure that your instance s security group rules allow inbound ICMP traffic for the ping command to work Private hosted zones do not support transitive relationships outside of the VPC for example you cannot access your resources using their custom private DNS names from the other side of a VPN connection Important If you are using custom DNS domain names defined in a private hosted zone in Amazon Route 53 you must set the following VPC attributes to true enableDnsHostnames and enableDnsSupport For more information see Updating DNS Support for Your VPC p 151 Peering AVPC peering connection is a networking connection between two VPCs that enables you to route traffic between them using private IP addresses Instances in either VPC can communicate with each other as API Version 2015 04 15 152 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide VPC Peering Basics if they are within the same network You can create a VPC peering connection between your own VPCs or with a VPC in another AWS account within a single region AWS uses the existing infrastructure of a VPC to create a VPC peering connection it is neither a gateway nor a VPN connection and does not rely on a separate piece of physical hardware There is no single point of failure
91. your instances into a region that you haven t used before If you d prefer to add a default VPC to a region that doesn t have one see I really want a default VPC for my existing EC2 account Is that possible in the Default VPCs FAQ Components When we create a default VPC we do the following to set it up for you Create a default subnet in each Availability Zone Create an Internet gateway and connect it to your default VPC Create a main route table for your default VPC with a rule that sends all traffic destined for the Internet to the Internet gateway Create a default security group and associate it with your default VPC Create a default network access control list ACL and associate it with your default VPC Associate the default DHCP options set for your AWS account with your default VPC The following figure illustrates the key components that we set up for a default VPC Private 172 31 0 5 Public 203 0 113 1 EC2 Instance Default Subnet 1 172 31 0 0 20 Private 172 31 16 5 Public 203 0 113 23 EC2 Instance f Destination Target 172 31 0 016 local af en Sa an an cl a teh an 00 0 00 igwid Default Subnet 2 172 31 16 020 tau 172 31 0 0 16 Region Instances that you launch into a default subnet receive both a public IP address and a private IP address Instances in a default subnet also receive both public and private DNS hostnames Instances that you launc
92. 0 0 in the Destination box select the instance ID of the NAT instance from the Target list and then click Save 5 On the Subnet Associations tab click Edit and then select the Associate check box for the subnet Click Save For more information about route tables see Route Tables p 123 Testing Your NAT Instance Configuration After you have launched a NAT instance and completed the configuration steps above you can perform a test to check if an instance in your private subnet can access the Internet through the NAT instance To do this update your NAT instance s security group rules to allow inbound and outbound ICMP traffic and allow outbound SSH traffic launch an instance into your private subnet configure SSH agent forwarding to access instances in your private subnet connect to your instance and then test the Internet connectivity To update your NAT instance s security group 1 Open the Amazon EC2 console at htips console amazonaws cn ec2 2 Inthe navigation pane click Security Groups 3 Find the security group associated with your NAT instance and click Edit in the Inbound tab 4 Click Add Rule select All ICMP from the Type list and select Custom IP from the Source list Enter the IP address range of your private subnet for example 10 0 1 0 24 Click Save 5 Inthe Outbound tab click Edit 6 Click Add Rule select SSH from the Type list and select Custom IP from the Source list Enter the IP address ran
93. 00 as the ASN Used to specify static routes Comments You can use an existing ASN as signed to your network If you don t have one you can use a private ASN in the 64512 65534 range For more information about ASNs see the Wikipedia article Amazon VPC supports 2 byte ASN numbers Configuring Two VPN Tunnels for Your VPN Connection You use a VPN connection to connect your network to a VPC Each VPN connection has two tunnels with each tunnel using a unique virtual private gateway public IP address It is important to configure both tunnels for redundancy When one tunnel becomes unavailable for example down for maintenance network traffic is automatically routed to the available tunnel for that specific VPN connection The following diagram shows the two tunnels of the VPN connection API Version 2015 04 15 176 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Using Redundant VPN Connections to Provide Failover Using Redundant VPN Connections to Provide Failover As described earlier a VPN connection has two tunnels to help ensure connectivity in case one of the VPN connections becomes unavailable To protect against a loss of connectivity in case your customer gateway becomes unavailable you can set up a second VPN connection to your VPC by using a second customer gateway By using redundant VPN connections and customer gateways you can perform maintenance on one of your customer gateways while tr
94. 2 CreateRoute ec2 CreateInternetGateway ec2 AttachInternetGateway ec2 AssociateRouteTable ec2 ModifyVp cAttribute ec2 DescribeKeyPairs ec2 DescribeImages ec2 RunInstances ec2 AllocateAddress ec2 AssociateAddress ec2 DescribeInstances ec2 ModifyInstanceAttribute ec2 De scribeRouteTables ec2 DescribeVpnGateways ec2 DescribeVpcs l Resource x You can use resource level permissions on the ec2 RunInstances action to control users ability to launch instances For example you can specify the ID of a NAT enabled AMI so that users can only launch instances from this AMI To find out which AMI the wizard uses to launch a NAT instance log in to the Amazon VPC console as a user with full permissions then carry out the second option of the VPC wizard Switch to the Amazon EC2 console select the Instances page select the NAT instance and note the AMI ID that was used to launch it The following policy allows users to launch instances using only ami 1a2b3c4d If users try to launch an instance using any other AMI the launch fails API Version 2015 04 15 100 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Example Policies for the Console Version 2012 10 17 Statement Effect Allow WAction ec2 CreateVpc ec2 CreateSubnet ec2 DescribeAvailabilityZones ec2 CreateRouteTable ec2 CreateRoute ec2 CreateInternetGateway
95. 2Subnet AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell API Version 2015 04 15 56 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Default VPC Basics Your Default VPC and Subnets If you created your AWS account after 2013 12 04 it supports only EC2 VPC In this case you ll have a default VPC in each AWS region A default VPC is ready for you to use you can immediately start launching instances into your default VPC without having to perform any additional configuration steps A default VPC combines the benefits of the advanced networking features provided by the EC2 VPC platform with the ease of use of the EC2 Classic platform For more information about the EC2 Classic and EC2 VPC platforms see Supported Platforms Topics Default VPC Basics p 57 Detecting Your Supported Platforms and Whether You Have a Default VPC p 59 e Launching an EC2 Instance into Your Default VPC p 60 Deleting Your Default VPC p 61 Default VPC Basics This section provides information about your default virtual private cloud VPC and its default subnets Availability If you created your AWS account after 2013 12 04 it supports only EC2 VPC In this case we create a default VPC for you in each AWS region Therefore unless you create a nondefault VPC and specify it when you launch an instance we launch your instances into your default VPC If you created your AWS account before 2013 03 18 it supports both EC2 Classic and EC2 VPC in regions t
96. 80876 1431280934 NODATA The following is an example of a flow log record in which records were skipped during the capture window 2 123456789010 eni 4b118871 1431280876 1431280934 SKIPDATA Security Group and Network ACL Rules If you re using flow logs to diagnose overly restrictive or permissive security group rules or network ACL rules then be aware of the statefulness of these resources Security groups are stateful this means that responses to allowed traffic are also allowed even if the rules in your security group do not permit it Conversely network ACLs are stateless therefore responses to allowed traffic are subject to network ACL rules For example you use the ping command from your home computer IP address is 55 123 456 78 to your instance the network interface s private IP address is 172 11 22 333 Your security group s inbound rules allow ICMP traffic and the outbound rules do not allow ICMP traffic however because security groups are stateful the response ping from your instance is allowed Your network ACL permits inbound ICMP traffic but does not permit outbound ICMP traffic Because network ACLs are stateless the response ping is dropped and will not reach your home computer In a flow log this is displayed as 3 flow log entries there are 2 ACCEPT entries for the originating ping and the response ping that the security group permitted and one REJECT entry for response ping that the net
97. 96 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Example Policies for the Console Version 2012 10 17 Statement Effect Allow Action ec2 DescribeVpcPeeringConnections Resource be Effect Allow Action ec2 CreateVpcPeeringConnection ec2 AcceptVpcPeeringConnection Resource arn aws ec2 333333333333 vpc Effect Allow Action ec2 VpcPeeringConnection Resource arn aws ec2 333333333333 vpc peering connection Condition ArnEquals ec2 AccepterVpc arn aws ec2 333333333333 vpc ec2 RequesterVpc arn aws ec2 333333333333 vpc Example 8 Creating and managing VPC endpoints The following policy grants users permission to create modify view and delete VPC endpoints None of the ec2 VpcEndpoint actions support resource level permissions so you have to use the wildcard for the Resource element to allow users to work with all resources Version 2012 10 17 Statement Effect Allow Action ec2 VpcEndpoint Resource Example Policies for the Console You can use IAM policies to grant users permissions to view and work with specific resources in the Amazon VPC console You can use the example policies in the previous section however they are designed for requests that are made with the AWS CLI the Amazon EC2 CLI or an AWS SDK The console uses add
98. Accessing Amazon VPC p 6 Set the supported tenancy options for instances that you launch into a VPC e create vpc AWS CLI ec2 create vpc Amazon EC2 CLI e New EC2Vpc AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Describe the supported tenancy options for instances launched into the VPC describe vpcs AWS CLI ec2 describe vpcs Amazon EC2 CLI Get EC2Vpc AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Set the tenancy option for an instance e run instances AWS CLI ec2 run instances Amazon EC2 CLI e New EC2Instance AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Describe the tenancy value of an instance describe instances AWS CLI ec2 describe instances Amazon EC2 CLI e Get EC2Instance AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Describes the tenancy value of a Reserved Instance e describe reserved instances AWS CLI ec2 describe reserved instances Amazon EC2 CLI API Version 2015 04 15 191 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide API and Command Overview e Get EC2ReservedIinstance AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Describes the tenancy value of a Reserved Instance offering describe reserved instances offerings AWS CLI ec2 describe reserved instances offerings Amazon EC2 CLI Get EC2ReservedinstancesOffering AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell API Version 2015 04 15 192 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide ClassicLink ClassicLink allows you to link an EC2 Classic instance to a VPC in your account
99. C in that region for you You cannot mark an existing VPC as a default VPC If you delete a default subnet and then need to restore it create a new subnet in your default VPC and then contact AWS Support to mark the subnet as a default subnet You must provide the following details your AWS account ID the region and the subnet ID To ensure that your new default subnet behaves as expected modify the subnet attribute to assign public IP addresses to instances that are launched in that subnet For more information see Modifying Your Subnet s Public IP Addressing Behavior p 117 You can only have one default subnet per Availability Zone You cannot create a default subnet in a nondefault VPC API Version 2015 04 15 61 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Comparison of Security Groups and Network ACLs Security in Your VPC Amazon VPC provides two features that you can use to increase security for your VPC Security groups Act as a firewall for associated Amazon EC2 instances controlling both inbound and outbound traffic at the instance level e Network access control lists ACLs Act as a firewall for associated subnets controlling both inbound and outbound traffic at the subnet level When you launch an instance in a VPC you can associate one or more security groups that you ve created Each instance in your VPC could belong to a different set of security groups If you don t specify a security group when you launch a
100. C to use No DHCP Options p 148 Deleting a DHCP Options Set p 149 Creating a DHCP Options Set You can create as many additional DHCP options sets as you want However you can only associate a VPC with one set of DHCP options at a time After you create a set of DHCP options you must configure your VPC to use it For more information see Changing the Set of DHCP Options a VPC Uses p 148 To create a DHCP options set 1 Open the Amazon VPC console API Version 2015 04 15 147 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Working with DHCP Options Sets 2 Click DHCP Options Sets in the navigation pane and then click the Create DHCP Options Set button 3 Inthe Create DHCP Options Set dialog box enter values for the options that you want to use and then click Yes Create Important If your VPC has an Internet gateway make sure to specify your own DNS server or Amazon s DNS server AmazonProvidedDNS for the Domain name servers value Otherwise the instances that need to communicate with the Internet won t have access to DNS The new set of DHCP options appears in your list of DHCP options 4 Make a note of the ID of the new set of DHCP options dopt xxxxxxxx You will need it to associate the new set of options with your VPC Although you ve created a set of DHCP options you must associate it with your VPC for the options to take effect You can create multiple sets of DHCP options but you can associate only one
101. Create In the Name tag field optionally enter a name for your VPN connection Doing so creates a tag with a key of Name and the value that you specify Select the virtual private gateway that you created earlier Select the customer gateway that you created earlier Select one of the routing options based on whether your VPN router supports Border Gateway Protocol BGP If your VPN router supports BGP select Dynamic requires BGP e If your VPN router does not support BGP select Static In the Static IP Prefixes field specify each IP prefix for the private network of your VPN connection separated by commas It may take a few minutes to create the VPN connection When it s ready select the connection and then click Download Configuration In the Download Configuration dialog box select the vendor platform and software that corresponds to your customer gateway device or software and then click Yes Download API Version 2015 04 15 179 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Launch an Instance Into Your Subnet 6 Give the configuration file to your network administrator along with this guide Amazon VPC Network Administrator Guide After the network administrator configures the customer gateway the VPN connection is operational Launch an Instance Into Your Subnet To launch an instance into your subnet Open the Amazon EC2 console On the dashboard click Launch Instance On the Choose an Amazon Machine Ima
102. Delete button In the Delete Route Table dialog box click Yes Delete Po be API and Command Overview You can perform the tasks described on this page using the command line or an API For more information about the command line interfaces and a list of available APIs see Accessing Amazon VPC p 6 Create a custom route table create route table AWS CLI ec2 create route table Amazon EC2 CLI e New EC2RouteTable AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Add a route to a route table e create route AWS CLI ec2 create route Amazon EC2 CLI e New EC2Route AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell API Version 2015 04 15 131 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide API and Command Overview Associate a subnet with a route table associate route table AWS CLI ec2 associate route table Amazon EC2 CLI e Register EC2RouteTable AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Describe one or more route tables describe route tables AWS CLI ec2 describe route tables Amazon EC2 CLI e Get EC2RouteTable AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Delete a route from a route table e delete route AWS CLI e ec2 delete route Amazon EC2 CLI e Remove EC2Route AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Replace an existing route in a route table replace route AWS CLI ec2 replace route Amazon EC2 CLI Set EC2Route AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Disassociate a subnet from a route table e disassociate route table AWS CLI
103. I Describe your flow logs e describe flow logs AWS CLI Get EC2FlowLogs AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell DescribeFlowLogs Amazon EC2 Query API View your flow log records log events get log events AWS CLI Get CWLLogEvenis AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell e GetLogEvents CloudWatch API Delete a flow log e delete flow logs AWS CLI e Remove EC2FlowLogs AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell e DeleteFlowLogs Amazon EC2 Query API API Version 2015 04 15 113 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Examples Flow Log Records Examples Flow Log Records Flow Log Records for Accepted and Rejected Traffic The following is an example of a flow log record in which SSH traffic destination port 22 TCP protocol to network interface eni abc123de in account 123456789010 was allowed 2 123456789010 eni abcl23de 172 168 1 12 172 168 1 11 20641 22 6 20 4249 1418530010 1418530070 ACCEPT OK The following is an example of a flow log record in which RDP traffic destination port 3389 TCP protocol to network interface eni abc123de in account 123456789010 was rejected 2 123456789010 eni abcl23de 172 168 1 12 172 168 1 11 49761 3389 6 20 4249 1418530010 1418530070 REJECT OK Flow Log Records for No Data and Skipped Records The following is an example of a flow log record in which no data was recorded during the capture window 2 123456789010 eni la2b3c4d 14312
104. I Version 2015 04 15 156 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Working with VPC Peering Connections your VPC s route table For more information see Updating Route Tables for Your VPC Peering Connection p 157 Accepting a VPC Peering Connection A VPC peering connection that s in the pending acceptance state must be accepted by the owner of the peer VPC to be activated You cannot accept a VPC peering connection request that you ve sent to another AWS account If you are creating a VPC peering connection in the same AWS account you must both create and accept the request yourself Important Do not accept VPC peering connections from AWS accounts that you do not know A malicious user may have sent you a VPC peering connection request to gain unauthorized network access to your VPC This is known as peer phishing You can safely reject unwanted VPC peering connection requests without any risk of the requester gaining access to any information about your AWS account or your VPC For more information about rejecting VPC peering requests see Rejecting a VPC Peering Connection p 157 You can also ignore the request and let it expire by default the request expires after 7 days To accept a VPC peering connection 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click Peering Connections 3 To view all VPC peering connections that are pending your acceptance select Requests pending
105. It does match the second rule 110 which allows the packet into the subnet If the packet had been destined for port 139 NetBIOS the first two rules would not have matched but the rule ultimately would have denied the packet You might want to add a DENY rule in a situation where you legitimately need to open a wide range of ports but there are certain ports within that range you want to deny Just make sure to place the DENY rule earlier in the table than the rule that allows the wide range of port traffic Important With Elastic Load Balancing if the subnet for your back end instances has a network ACL with an inbound DENY rule for all traffic with a source of 0 0 0 0 0 then your load balancer can t carry out health checks on the instances To ensure that health checks can be performed first remove the DENY rule Next add two inbound ALLOW rules for each subnet attached to your load balancer one for all traffic on the listener port and another for all traffic on the health check port Finally add an outbound ALLOW rule for each subnet attached to your load balancer for ephemeral ports 1024 to 65535 API Version 2015 04 15 73 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Ephemeral Ports Ephemeral Ports The example network ACL in the preceding section uses an ephemeral port range of 49152 65535 However you might want to use a different range for your network ACLs This section explains why The client that initiates the re
106. NAT instance in a public subnet in your VPC to enable instances in the private subnet to initiate outbound traffic to the Internet but prevent the instances from receiving inbound traffic initiated by someone on the Internet For a general overview of VPCs and subnets see What is Amazon VPC p 1 For more information about public and private subnets see Subnet Routing p 53 Note We use the term NAT instance however the primary role of a NAT instance is actually port address translation PAT We chose to use the more widely known term NAT For more information about NAT and PAT see the Wikipedia article about network address translation Topics NAT Instance Basics p 139 Setting up the NAT Instance p 139 Creating the NATSG Security Group p 141 Disabling Source Destination Checks p 142 API Version 2015 04 15 138 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide NAT Instance Basics Updating the Main Route Table p 143 Testing Your NAT Instance Configuration p 143 NAT Instance Basics The following figure illustrates the NAT instance basics The main route table sends the traffic from the instances in the private subnet to the NAT instance in the public subnet The NAT instance sends the traffic to the Internet gateway for the VPC The traffic is attributed to the Elastic IP address of the NAT instance The NAT instance specifies a high port number for the response if a response comes back the NA
107. NS server and then click Yes Create In this example your DNS server is 192 0 2 1 In the navigation pane click Your VPCs Select the VPC and then click the Edit button in the Summary tab Select the ID of the new set of options from the DHCP options set list and then click Save Optional The VPC now uses this new set of DHCP options and therefore uses your DNS server If you want you can delete the original set of options that the VPC used You can now use SSH or RDP to connect to your instance in the VPC For information about how to connect to a Linux instance see Connect to Your Linux Instance in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances For information about how to connect to a Windows instance see Connect to Your Windows Instance in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Microsoft Windows Instances API Version 2015 04 15 46 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Your VPC Your VPC and Subnets To get started with Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Amazon VPC you ll create a VPC and subnets For a general overview of VPCs and subnets see What is Amazon VPC p 1 Topics e Your VPC p 47 Subnets in Your VPC p 50 e CLI Overview p 55 Your VPC A virtual private cloud VPC is a virtual network dedicated to your AWS account It is logically isolated from other virtual networks in the AWS cloud You can launch your AWS resources such as Amazon EC2 instances into your VPC When you create a VPC you specify
108. P Addressing in Your VPC p 116 API Version 2015 04 15 51 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Subnet Sizing Private 10 0 0 5 EIP 198 51 100 1 Destination Target Subnet 1 0 0 0 0 0 igw i Main Route Table Destination Target Subnet 2 10 0 1 0 24 Availability Zone B Private 10 0 1 5 VPN Connection Custom r Gateway Subnet 3 Corporate Network 10 0 2 0 24 Destination Target Availability Zone C 10 0 0 0 16 10 0 0 0 16 local For more information see VPC Wizard Scenarios for Amazon VPC p 17 Internet Gateways p 133 or Adding a Hardware Virtual Private Gateway to Your VPC p 172 Subnet Sizing When you create a subnet you specify the CIDR block for the subnet The CIDR block of a subnet can be the same as the CIDR block for the VPC for a single subnet in the VPC or a subset to enable multiple subnets The allowed block size is between a 28 netmask and 16 netmask If you create more than one subnet in a VPC the CIDR blocks of the subnets must not overlap For example if you create a VPC with CIDR block 10 0 0 0 24 it supports 256 IP addresses You can break this CIDR block into two subnets each supporting 128 IP addresses One subnet uses CIDR block API Version 2015 04 15 52 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Subnet Routing 10 0 0 0 25 for addresses 10 0 0 0 10 0 0 127 and the other uses CIDR block 10 0 0 128 25 for addresses
109. PC You can t modify the local route in a route table Whenever you launch an instance in the VPC the local route automatically covers that instance you don t need to add the new instance to a route table If you don t explicitly associate a subnet with a route table the subnet is implicitly associated with the main route table However you can still explicitly associate a subnet with the main route table You might do that if you change which table is the main route table see Replacing the Main Route Table p 130 API Version 2015 04 15 123 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Custom Route Tables The console shows the number of subnets associated with each table Only explicit associations are included in that number see Determining Which Subnets Are Explicitly Associated with a Table p 128 When you add a gateway to a VPC either an Internet gateway or a virtual private gateway you must update the route table for any subnet that uses that gateway If you ve attached a virtual private gateway to your VPC and enabled route propagation on your route table routes representing your VPN connection automatically appear as propagated routes in your route table s list of routes Custom Route Tables Your VPC can have route tables other than the default table One way to protect your VPC is to leave the main route table in its original default state with only the local route and explicitly associate each new subnet yo
110. S Tools for Windows PowerShell Update your security group For more information about working with security groups using a CLI see API and CL Overview p 69 Create a VPN connection e CreateVpnConnection Amazon EC2 Query API ec2 create vpn connection Amazon EC2 CLI create vpn connection AWS CLI e New EC2VpnConnection AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Add a static route e CreateVpnConnectionRoute Amazon EC2 Query API ec2 create vpn connection route Amazon EC2 CLI create vpn connection route AWS CLI e New EC2VpnConnectionRoute AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Delete a static route e DeleteVpnConnectionRoute Amazon EC2 Query API ec2 delete vpn connection route Amazon EC2 CLI e delete vpn connection route AWS CLI e Remove EC2VpnConnectionRoute AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Delete a VPN connection e DeleteVpnConnection Amazon EC2 Query API e ec2 delete vpn connection Amazon EC2 CLI e delete vpn connection AWS CLI e Remove EC2VpnConnection AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Delete a customer gateway e DeleteCustomerGateway Amazon EC2 Query API API Version 2015 04 15 183 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide API and CLI Overview ec2 delete customer gateway Amazon EC2 CLI e delete customer gateway AWS CLI e Remove EC2CustomerGateway AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Detach a virtual private gateway e DetachVpnGateway Amazon EC2 Query API
111. SG Security Group The following table describes the inbound and outbound rules for the WebServerSG security group You ll add the inbound rules yourself The outbound rule is a default rule that allows all outbound communication to anywhere you do not need to add this rule yourself Inbound Source IP Protocol Port Range Comments 0 0 0 0 0 TCP 80 Allows inbound HTTP access from any where API Version 2015 04 15 11 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Creating Your WebServerSG Security Group 0 0 0 0 0 TCP 443 Allows inbound HTTPS access from anywhere Public IP address TCP 22 Allows inbound SSH access from your range of your home network to a Linux UNIX instance home network Public IP address TCP 3389 Allows inbound RDP access from your range of your home network to a Windows instance home network Outbound Destination IP Protocol Port Range Comments 0 0 0 0 0 All All The default outbound rule that allows all outbound communication Creating Your WebServerSG Security Group You can create your security group using the Amazon VPC console To create the WebServerSG security group and add rules fue eS a Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane choose Security Groups Choose Create Security Group In the Group name field enter WebServerSG as the name of the security group and provide a description You can optionally use the Name tag field to cr
112. Subnet with a Network ACL To apply the rules of a network ACL to a particular subnet you must associate the subnet with the network ACL You can associate a network ACL with multiple subnets however a subnet can be associated with only one network ACL Any subnet not associated with a particular ACL is associated with the default network ACL by default To associate a subnet with a network ACL 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click Network ACLs and then select the network ACL 3 Inthe details pane on the Subnet Associations tab click Edit Select the Associate check box for the subnet to associate with the table and then click Save Disassociating a Network ACL from a Subnet You might want to disassociate a subnet from its network ACL For example you might have a subnet that is associated with a custom network ACL and you instead want it associated with the default network ACL By disassociating the subnet from the custom network ACL the subnet becomes associated with the default network ACL To disassociate a subnet from a network ACL Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click Network ACLs and then select the network ACL In the details pane click the Subnet Associations tab Click Edit and then deselect the Associate check box for the subnet Click Save PONS API Version 2015 04 15 76 Amazon Virtua
113. T instance sends it to an instance in the private subnet based on the port number for the response 5 Destination Target 198 51 109 1 HIP 10 0 0 5 198 51 109 2 HIP 10 0 0 6 198 51 109 3 HIP 10 0 0 7 NAT Instance Web Servers 10 0 08 Public subn ai T000 0 24 198 51 100 4 1p Database Destination Target Servers Private subnet 10 0 0 0 16 local 0 0 0 0 0 _nat instance id 10 0 1 0 24 Availability Zone A 10 0 0 0 16 Region Setting up the NAT Instance You can use the VPC wizard to set up a VPC with a NAT instance for more information see Scenario 2 VPC with Public and Private Subnets NAT p 22 The wizard performs many of the configuration steps for you including launching a NAT instance and setting up the routing However if you prefer you can create and configure a VPC and a NAT instance manually using the steps below 1 Create a VPC with two subnets Note The steps below are for manually creating and configuring a VPC not for creating a VPC using the VPC wizard Create a VPC see Creating a VPC p 49 Create two subnets see Creating a Subnet p 135 Attach an Internet gateway to the VPC see Attaching an Internet Gateway p 135 Create a custom route table that sends traffic destined outside the VPC to the Internet gateway and then associate it with one subnet making it a public subnet see Creating a Custom Route Table p 135
114. TPS access to the Internet for example for software up dates The default security group fora VPC has rules that automatically allow assigned instances to communicate with each other To allow that type of communication between instances in your VPC when you use a different security group you must add a rule like the following to your security groups Inbound Source Protocol Port Range Comments The ID of the security group All All Allow inbound traffic from other in stances assigned to this security group API Version 2015 04 15 27 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Implementing Scenario 2 Implementing Scenario 2 Use the following process to implement scenario 2 using the VPC wizard To implement scenario 2 using the VPC wizard 1 2 3 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpo In the navigation pane click VPC Dashboard Locate the Your Virtual Private Cloud area of the dashboard and click Get started creating a VPC if you have no VPC resources or click Start VPC Wizard Select the second option VPC with Public and Private Subnets and then click Select Verify the information on the confirmation page Make any changes that you need and then click Create VPC to create your VPC subnets Internet gateway and route tables and launch a NAT instance into the public subnet Because the WebServerSG and DBServerSG security groups reference each other create all the security groups
115. Table Association p 125 Route Tables for VPC Peering Connections p 126 Route Tables for ClassicLink p 127 Route Tables for VPC Endpoints p 127 Working with Route Tables p 127 API and Command Overview p 131 Route Table Basics The following are the basic things that you need to know about route tables Your VPC has an implicit router Your VPC automatically comes with a main route table that you can modify You can create additional custom route tables for your VPC Each subnet must be associated with a route table which controls the routing for the subnet If you don t explicitly associate a subnet with a particular route table the subnet uses the main route table You can replace the main route table with a custom table that you ve created so that this table is the default table each new subnet is associated with Each route in a table specifies a destination CIDR and a target for example traffic destined for 172 16 0 0 12 is targeted for the virtual private gateway we use the most specific route that matches the traffic to determine how to route the traffic Main Route Tables When you create a VPC it automatically has a main route table On the Route Tables page in the VPC console you can view the main route table for a VPC by looking for Yes in the Main column Initially the main route table and every route table in a VPC contains only a single route a local route that enables communication within the V
116. Target list and then choose Save 6 On the Subnet Associations tab choose Edit select the Associate check box for the subnet and then choose Save For more information about route tables see Route Tables p 123 Updating the Security Group Rules Your VPC comes with a default security group Each instance that you launch into a VPC is automatically associated with its default security group The default settings for a default security group allow no inbound traffic from the Internet and allow all outbound traffic to the Internet Therefore to enable your instances to communicate with the Internet create a new security group that allows public instances to access the Internet To create a new security group and associate it with your instances 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane choose Security Groups and then choose Create Security Group 3 Inthe Create Security Group dialog box specify a name for the security group and a description Select the ID of your VPC from the VPC list and then choose Yes Create 4 Select the security group The details pane displays the details for the security group plus tabs for working with its inbound rules and outbound rules 5 On the Inbound Rules tab choose Edit Choose Add Rule and complete the required information For example select HTTP or HTTPS from the Type list and enter the Source as 0 0 0 0 0 Choose Save when you re don
117. VPC security groups and network ACLs Both features enable you to control the inbound and outbound traffic for your instances but security groups work at the instance level while network ACLs work at the subnet level Security groups alone can meet the needs of many VPC users However some VPC users decide to use both security groups and network ACLs to take advantage of the additional layer of security that network ACLs provide For more information about security groups and network ACLs and how they differ see Security in Your VPC p 62 For scenario 1 you ll use a security group but not network ACLs If you d like to use a network ACL see Recommended Rules for Scenario 1 p 79 Recommended Security Group Rules Your VPC comes with a default security group whose initial settings allow all outbound traffic and allow all traffic between instances assigned to the security group If you don t specify a security group when you launch an instance the instance is automatically assigned to the default security group for the VPC We could modify the rules for the default security group but the rules that you need for your web servers might not work for other instances that you launch into the VPC Therefore we recommend that you create a security group to use with the web servers in your public subnet API Version 2015 04 15 19 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Implementing Scenario 1 You ll create a security group named WebSe
118. WS services later API Version 2015 04 15 160 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Endpoint Basics An endpoint enables instances in your VPC to use their private IP addresses to communicate with resources in other services Your instances do not require public IP addresses and you do not need an Internet gateway a NAT instance or a virtual private gateway in your VPC You use endpoint policies to control access to resources in other services Traffic between your VPC and the AWS service does not leave the Amazon network There is no additional charge for using endpoints Standard charges for data transfer and resource usage apply For more information about pricing see Amazon EC2 Pricing Topics Endpoint Basics p 161 Controlling the Use of Endpoints p 165 Controlling Access to Services p 165 e Working with Endpoints p 168 API and CLI Overview p 170 Endpoint Basics To create an endpoint specify the VPC and the service to which you re connecting A service is identified by a prefix list or the name and ID of a service for a region A prefix list ID uses the form pl xxxxxxx and a prefix list name uses the form com amazonaws lt region gt lt service gt You use the prefix list name service name to create an endpoint You can attach an endpoint policy to your endpoint that allows access to some or all of the service to which you re connecting For more information see Using Endpoint Policies p
119. a destination of 10 0 0 0 8 anda target of local If you disable ClassicLink for a VPC this route is automatically deleted in all the VPC s route tables If any of your VPC s route tables have existing routes for address ranges within the 10 0 0 0 8 CIDR then you cannot enable your VPC for ClassicLink This does not include local routes for VPCs with 10 0 0 0 16 and 10 1 0 0 16 IP address ranges If you ve already enabled a VPC for ClassicLink you may not be able to add any more specific routes to your route tables for the 10 0 0 0 8 IP address range Route Tables for VPC Endpoints AVPC endpoint enables you to create a private connection between your VPC and another AWS service When you create an endpoint you specify the route tables in your VPC that are used by the endpoint A route is automatically added to each of the route tables with a destination that specifies the prefix list ID of the service p1 xxxxxxxx and a target with the endpoint ID vpce xxxxxxxx You cannot explicitly delete or modify the endpoint route but you can change the route tables that are used by the endpoint For more information about routing for endpoints and the implications for routes to AWS services see Routing for Endpoints p 161 Working with Route Tables This section shows you how to work with route tables Note When you use the wizard in the console to create a VPC with a gateway the wizard automatically updates the route tables to use the
120. able or disable route propagation For more information about VPN routing options see VPN Routing Options p 174 To enable route propagation Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click Route Tables and then select the route table In the details pane click the Route Propagation tab Click Edit and then select the virtual private gateway Click Save Po NS API Version 2015 04 15 129 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Working with Route Tables To disable route propagation 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc 2 Inthe navigation pane click Route Tables and then select the route table 3 On the Route Propagation tab click Edit and then deselect the Propagate check box next to the ID of the virtual private gateway Click Save Associating a Subnet with a Route Table To apply a route table s routes to a particular subnet you must associate the route table with the subnet A route table can be associated with multiple subnets however a subnet can only be associated with one route table at a time Any subnet not explicitly associated with a table is implicitly associated with the main route table by default To associate a table with a subnet Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click Route Tables and then select the route table In the details pane on the Subnet Assoc
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122. ach other The second row describes the entry for routing all other subnet traffic from the private subnet to your network over the virtual private gateway which is specified using its AWS assigned identifier for example vgw 1la2b3c4d Destination Target 10 0 0 0 16 local 0 0 0 0 0 VQw XXXXXXXX Custom Route Table The first row describes the entry for local routing in the VPC this entry enables the instances in the VPC to communicate with each other The second row describes the entry for routing all other subnet traffic from the public subnet to the Internet over the Internet gateway which is specified using its AWS assigned identifier for example igw 1a2b3c4qd Destination Target 10 0 0 0 16 local 0 0 0 0 0 i gw XXXXXXXX Alternate Routing Alternatively if you want instances in the private subnet to access the Internet you could set up the routing so that the Internet bound traffic for the subnet goes to a network address translation NAT instance in the public subnet The NAT instance enables the instances in the VPN only subnet to send requests over the Internet gateway for example for software updates To enable the private subnet s Internet bound traffic to go to the NAT instance you must update the main route table as follows Main Route Table The first row describes the entry for local routing in the VPC The second row describes the entry for routing the subnet traffic bound for your network to the virtual private
123. add a rule like the following to your security groups Inbound Source Protocol Port Range Comments The ID of the security group All All Allow inbound traffic from other in stances assigned to this security group Implementing Scenario 3 Use the following process to implement scenario 3 using the VPC wizard To prepare your customer gateway 1 Determine the appliance you ll use as your customer gateway For more information about the devices that we ve tested see Amazon Virtual Private Cloud FAQs For more information about the requirements for your customer gateway see the Amazon VPC Network Administrator Guide Obtain the Internet routable IP address for the customer gateway s external interface The address must be static and may be behind a device performing network address translation NAT however NAT traversal NAT T is not supported Gather the list of internal IP ranges in CIDR notation that should be advertised across the VPN connection to the virtual private gateway if you are using a statically routed VPN connection For more information see VPN Routing Options p 174 To implement scenario 3 using the VPC wizard 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click VPC Dashboard Locate the Your Virtual Private Cloud area of the dashboard and click Get started creating a VPC if you have no VPC resources or click Start VPC Wizard Select the third option
124. affic continues to flow over the second customer gateway s VPN connection To establish redundant VPN connections and customer gateways on your network you need to set up a second VPN connection The customer gateway IP address for the second VPN connection must be publicly accessible and can t be the same public IP address that you are using for the first VPN connection The following diagram shows the two tunnels of the VPN connection and two customer gateways Dynamically routed VPN connections use the Border Gateway Protocol BGP to exchange routing information between your customer gateways and the virtual private gateways Statically routed VPN connections require you to enter static routes for the network on your side of the customer gateway BGP advertised and statically entered route information allow gateways on both sides to determine which tunnels are available and reroute traffic if a failure occurs We recommend that you configure your network to use the routing information provided by BGP if available to select an available path The exact configuration depends on the architecture of your network Setting Up the VPN Connection Use the following procedures to manually set up the VPN connection Alternatively you can create the VPC and subnets and complete the first five steps in this procedure using the VPC wizard For more information see Implementing Scenario 3 p 37 or Implementing Scenario 4 p 44 To set
125. al machine add your private key to the authentication agent For Linux use the following command PROMPT gt ssh add c mykeypair pem For OS X use the following command PROMPT gt ssh add K mykeypair pem Connect to your NAT instance using the A option to enable SSH agent forwarding for example ssh A ec2 user 54 0 0 123 To configure SSH agent forwarding for Windows PuTTY Download and install Pageant from the PuTTY download page if not already installed Convert your private key to ppk format For more information see Converting Your Private Key Using PuTTYgen Start Pageant and then click Add Key Select the ppk file you created enter the passphrase if required click OK and then close the Pageant Key List window Start a PUTTY session to connect to your NAT instance In the Auth category ensure that you select the Allow agent forwarding option and leave the Private key file for authentication field blank To test the Internet connection 1 Test that your NAT instance can communicate with the Internet by running the ping command for a website that has ICMP enabled for example PROMPT gt ping ietf org PING ietf org 4 31 198 44 56 84 bytes of data 64 bytes from mail ietf org 4 31 198 44 icmp_seq l ttl 48 time 74 9 ms 64 bytes from mail ietf org 4 31 198 44 icmp_seq 2 ttl 48 time 75 1 ms API Version 2015 04 15 144 Amazon Virtual Privat
126. an t receive traffic from the Internet directly because they don t have Elastic IP addresses However the database servers can send and receive Internet traffic through the NAT instance in the public subnet Any additional subnets that you create use the main route table by default which means that they are private subnets by default If you d like to make a subnet public you can always change the route table that it s associated with The following tables describe the route tables for this scenario Main Route Table The first row describes the entry for local routing in the VPC this entry enables the instances in the VPC to communicate with each other The second row describes the entry that sends all other subnet traffic to the NAT instance which is specified using its AWS assigned identifiers for example network interface eni 1a2b3c4d and instance i 1la2b3c4d Destination Target 10 0 0 0 16 local 0 0 0 0 0 Ni XXXXXXXX i XXXXXXXX API Version 2015 04 15 24 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Security for Scenario 2 Custom Route Table The first row describes the entry for local routing in the VPC this entry enables the instances in this VPC to communicate with each other The second row describes the entry for routing all other subnet traffic to the Internet over the Internet gateway which is specified using its AWS assigned identifier for example igw 1la2b3d4qd Destination Target 10 0 0 0 16 local 0 0 0 0
127. ate ways per region by the same amount Subnets per VPC 200 This limit can be increased upon request Internet gateways per region 5 This limit is directly correlated with the limit on VPCs per region You cannot increase this limit individually the only way to increase this limit is to increase the limit on VPCs per region Only one Internet gateway can be attached to a VPC at a time Virtual private gateways per region 5 This limit can be increased upon request however only one virtual private gateway can be attached to a VPC at a time Customer gateways per region 50 This limit can be increased upon request VPN connections per region 50 This limit can be increased upon request VPN connections per VPC per virtual private 10 This limit can be increased upon request gateway Route tables per VPC 200 Including the main route table You can asso ciate one route table to one or more subnets ina VPC Entries per route table 50 This is the limit for the number of non propagated entries per route table This limit can be increased upon request however network performance may be impacted API Version 2015 04 15 194 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Resource Default Comments limit Elastic IP addresses per region for each 5 This is the limit for the number of VPC AWS account Elastic IPs you can allocate within a region This is a separate limit from the EC2 Elastic IP address limit This limit can be incr
128. ate the WebServerSG and DBServerSG security groups if you haven t done so already see Security for Scenario 2 p 25 You ll specify one of these security groups when you launch the instance Start the launch wizard a Open the Amazon EC2 console at https console amazonaws cn ec2 b Click the Launch Instance button from the dashboard API Version 2015 04 15 30 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Implementing Scenario 2 Follow the directions in the wizard Choose an AMI choose an instance type and then click Next Configure Instance Details On the Configure Instance Details page select the VPC that you created earlier from the Network list and then select a subnet For example launch a web server into the public subnet and the database server into the private subnet Optional By default instances launched into a nondefault VPC are not assigned a public IP address To be able to connect to your instance you can assign a public IP address now or allocate an Elastic IP address and assign it to your instance after it s launched To assign a public IP address now ensure that you select Enable from the Auto assign Public IP list Note You can only assign a public IP address to a single new network interface with the device index of ethO For more information see Assigning a Public IP Address During Launch p 118 On the next two pages of the wizard you can configure storage for your instance and add tags On
129. beVPCs action To create a VPC using the Create VPC dialog box users must have permission to use the ec2 CreateVpc action Note By default the VPC console creates a tag with a key of Name and a value that the user specifies If users do not have permission to the use the ec2 CreateTags action then they will see an error in the Create VPC dialog box when they try to create a VPC However the VPC may have been successfully created When you set up a VPC you typically create a number of dependent objects such as subnets and an Internet gateway You cannot delete a VPC until you ve disassociated and deleted these dependent objects When you delete a VPC using the console it performs these actions for you except terminating your instances you have to do this yourself The following example allows users to view and create VPCs on the Your VPCs page and to delete VPCs that have been created with the first option in the VPC wizard a VPC with a single public subnet This VPC has one subnet that s associated with a custom route table and an Internet gateway that s attached to it To delete the VPC and its components using the console you must grant users permission to use a number of ec2 Describe actions so that the console can check if there are any other resources that are dependent on this VPC You must also grant users permission to disassociate the route table from the subnet detach the Internet gateway from the VPC and permission to d
130. bnet See the important note at the beginning of this topic about specifying the correct ephem eral ports Allows outbound SSH ac cess to instances in your private subnet from the SSH bastion Denies all outbound traffic not already handled by a preceding rule not modifi able API Version 2015 04 15 81 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Recommended Rules for Scenario 2 Rule 100 110 120 130 140 Outbound Rule 100 110 Source IP 10 0 0 0 24 10 0 0 0 24 10 0 0 0 24 10 0 0 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Dest IP 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Protocol TCP TCP TCP TCP TCP all Protocol TCP TCP Port 1433 3306 22 3389 49152 65535 all Port 80 443 Allow Deny ALLOW ALLOW ALLOW ALLOW ALLOW DENY Allow Deny ALLOW ALLOW Comments Allows web servers in the public subnet to read and write to MS SQL servers in the private subnet Allows web servers in the public subnet to read and write to MySQL servers in the private subnet Allows inbound SSH traffic from the SSH bastion in the public subnet Allows inbound RDP traffic from the Microsoft Terminal Services gateway in the public subnet Allows inbound return traffic from NAT instance in the public subnet for requests originating in the private subnet See the important note at the beginning of this topic about specifying the correct ephem eral ports
131. bound for the Internet your route table sends that traffic over the virtual private gateway DBServerSG Recommended Rules Inbound Source Protocol Port range The ID of your WebServerSG TCP 1433 security group The ID of your WebServerSG TCP 3306 security group Your network s IP address range TCP 22 Your network s IP address range TCP 3389 Outbound Destination Protocol Port range Comments Allow web servers assigned to Web ServerSG Microsoft SQL Server ac cess to database servers assigned to DBServerSG Allow web servers assigned to Web ServerSG MySQL access to database servers assigned to DBServerSG Allow inbound SSH traffic to Linux in stances from your network over the virtual private gateway Allow inbound RDP traffic to Windows instances from your network over the virtual private gateway Comments API Version 2015 04 15 36 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Implementing Scenario 3 0 0 0 0 0 TCP 80 Allow outbound HTTP access to the Internet for example for software up dates over the virtual private gateway 0 0 0 0 0 TCP 443 Allow outbound HTTPS access to the Internet for example for software up dates over the virtual private gateway The default security group fora VPC has rules that automatically allow assigned instances to communicate with each other To allow that type of communication between instances in your VPC when you use a different security group you must
132. bucket for example mybucket s3 us west 2 amazonaws com For more information about region specific endpoints for Amazon S3 see Amazon Simple Storage Service S3 in Amazon Web Services General Reference lf you use the AWS CLI to make requests to Amazon S3 set your default region to the same region as your bucket or use the region parameter in your requests Note Treat Amazon S3 s US Standard region as mapped to the us east 1 region If you use other AWS services in your VPC such as Amazon Elastic MapReduce they may use S3 buckets for certain tasks Ensure that your endpoint policy allows full access to Amazon S3 the default policy or that it allows access to the specific buckets that are used by these services Alternatively only create an endpoint in a subnet that is not used by any of these services to allow the services to continue accessing S3 buckets using public IP addresses The following table lists AWS services that may be affected by an endpoint and any specific information for each service AWS service AWS CloudFormation AWS CodeDeploy Elastic Beanstalk Amazon Elastic MapReduce AWS OpsWorks Amazon Redshift Note If you have resources in your VPC that must re spond to a wait condition or custom resource re quest your endpoint policy must allow at least ac cess to the specific buckets that are used by these resources For more information see AWS Cloud Formation and VPC Endpoints You
133. can t delete a default security group API Version 2015 04 15 68 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide API and CLI Overview To delete a security group Open the Amazon VPC console Click Security Groups in the navigation pane Select the security group and then click Delete In the Delete Security Group dialog box click Yes Delete Poe eS Deleting the 2009 07 15 default Security Group Any VPC created using an API version older than 2011 01 01 has the 2009 07 15 default security group This security group exists in addition to the regular default security group that comes with every VPC You can t attach an Internet gateway to a VPC that has the 2009 07 15 default security group Therefore you must delete this security group before you can attach an Internet gateway to the VPC Note If you assigned this security group to any instances you must assign these instances a different security group before you can delete the security group To delete the 2009 07 15 default security group 1 Ensure that this security group is not assigned to any instances a Open the Amazon EC2 console at htips console amazonaws cn ec2 b In the navigation pane click Network Interfaces c Select the network interface for the instance from the list and then select Change Security Groups from the Actions list d Inthe Change Security Groups dialog box select a new security group from the list and then click Save Tip When chan
134. capture window This may be because of an internal capacity constraint or an internal error If a field is not applicable for a specific record the record displays a symbol for that entry For examples of flow log records see Examples Flow Log Records p 114 You can work with flow log records as you would with any other log events collected by CloudWatch Logs For more information about monitoring log data and metric filters see Monitoring Log Data and Filter and Pattern Syntax in the Amazon CloudWatch Developer Guide For an example of setting up a metric filter and alarm for a flow log see Example Creating a CloudWatch Metric Filter and Alarm for a Flow Log p 115 IAM Roles for Flow Logs The IAM role that s associated with your flow log must have sufficient permissions to publish flow logs to the specified log group in CloudWatch Logs The IAM policy that s attached to your IAM role must include at least the following permissions Version 2012 10 17 Statement Action logs CreateLogGroup logs CreateLogStream logs PutLogEvents logs DescribeLogGroups logs DescribeLogStreams r Effect Allow Resource API Version 2015 04 15 109 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Working With Flow Logs You must also ensure that your role has a trust relationship that allows the flow logs service to assume the role in the IAM console choose your r
135. cess the Internet From time to time AWS may add a new Availability Zone to a region In most cases we ll automatically create a new default subnet in this Availability Zone for your default VPC However if you ve made any modifications to your default VPC we do not add a new default subnet If you want a default subnet for the new Availability Zone contact AWS Support to create a default subnet for you Detecting Your Supported Platforms and Whether You Have a Default VPC You can launch EC2 instances into a default VPC and use services such as Elastic Load Balancing Amazon Relational Database Service Amazon RDS and Amazon Elastic MapReduce Amazon EMR without needing to know anything about Amazon VPC Your experience with these services is the same whether you are using a default VPC or EC2 Classic However you can use the Amazon EC2 console or the command line to determine whether your AWS account supports both platforms and if you have a default VPC Detecting Platform Support Using the Console The Amazon EC2 console indicates which platforms you can launch EC2 instances into and whether you have a default VPC Verify that the region you ll use is selected in the navigation bar On the Amazon EC2 console dashboard look for Supported Platforms under Account Attributes If there are two values EC2 and VPC you can launch instances into either platform If there is one value VPC you can launch instances only into EC2 VPC
136. ch an instance with dedicated instance tenancy In addition you can t change the tenancy of a Reserved Instance after you ve purchased it Auto Scaling of Dedicated Instances For information about using Auto Scaling to launch Dedicated Instances see Auto Scaling in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud in the Auto Scaling Developer Guide Pricing for Dedicated Instances We have a separate pricing model for Dedicated Instances For more information see the Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances product page Working with Dedicated Instances This section shows you how to complete the following tasks Topics e Creating a VPC with an Instance Tenancy of Dedicated p 190 e Launching Dedicated Instances into a VPC p 190 e Displaying Tenancy Information p 190 API Version 2015 04 15 189 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Creating a VPC with an Instance Tenancy of Dedicated Creating a VPC with an Instance Tenancy of Dedicated When you create a VPC you have the option of specifying its instance tenancy You can accept the default or you can specify an instance tenancy of dedicated for your VPC In this section we show you how to create a VPC with an instance tenancy of dedicated To create a VPC with an instance tenancy of dedicated VPC Wizard Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc From the dashboard click the Start VPC Wizard button Select a VPC configuration and then click Select On th
137. ched to your endpoint Note The Policy tab only displays the endpoint policy It does not display any information about IAM policies for IAM users that have permission to work with endpoints It also does not display service specific policies for example S3 bucket policies Deleting an Endpoint If you no longer require an endpoint you can delete it Deleting an endpoint also deletes the endpoint routes in the route tables that were used by the endpoint but doesn t affect any security groups associated with the VPC in which the endpoint resides To delete an endpoint 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc 2 Inthe navigation pane choose Endpoints 3 Select your endpoint choose Actions and then choose Delete Endpoint 4 Inthe confirmation dialog box choose Yes Delete API and CLI Overview You can perform the tasks described on this page using a command line tool or the Amazon EC2 Query API Create a VPC endpoint create vpc endpoint AWS CLI ec2 create vpc endpoint Amazon EC2 CLI e New EC2VpcEndpoint AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell e CreateVpcEndpoint Amazon EC2 Query API API Version 2015 04 15 170 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide API and CLI Overview Get the prefix list name ID and IP address range for an AWS service e describe prefix lists AWS CLI ec2 describe prefix lists Amazon EC2 CLI e Get EC2PrefixList AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell
138. ciateRouteTable ec2 ModifyVp cAttribute l Resource Option 2 VPC with a public and private subnet API Version 2015 04 15 99 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Example Policies for the Console The second VPC wizard configuration option creates a VPC with a public and private subnet and launches a NAT instance The following policy has the same actions as the previous example option 1 plus actions that allow users to run and configure the NAT instance e ec2 DescribeKeyPairs To display a list of existing key pairs in step 2 of the VPC wizard Without this action the wizard page cannot load e ec2 DescribeImages To locate an AMI that s been configured to run as a NAT instance ec2 RunInstances To launch the NAT instance ec2 AllocateAddress and ec2 AssociateAddress To allocate an Elastic IP address to your account and then associate it with the NAT instance ec2 ModifyInstanceAttribute To disable source destination checking for the NAT instance e ec2 DescribeInstances To check the status of the instance until it s in the running state ec2 DescribeRouteTables ec2 DescribeVpnGateways and ec2 DescribeVpcs To gather information about the routes that must be added to the main route table Version 2012 10 17 Statement Effect Allow YAction ec2 CreateVpc ec2 CreateSubnet ec2 DescribeAvailabilityZones ec2 CreateRouteTable ec
139. cific default subnet in your default VPC specify its subnet ID or Availability Zone Deleting Your Default VPC You can delete one or more of your default subnets just as you can delete any other subnet However after you ve deleted a default subnet it s gone Now you can t launch EC2 instances into that Availability Zone in your default VPC unless you create a subnet in that Availability Zone and explicitly launch instances into that subnet If you delete all default subnets for your default VPC then you must specify a subnet in another VPC when you launch an EC2 instance because you can t launch instances into EC2 Classic For more information see Deleting Your Subnet p 54 If you try to delete your default subnet the Delete Subnet dialog box displays a warning and requires you to acknowledge that you are aware that you are deleting a default subnet You can delete a default VPC just as you can delete any other VPC However after you ve deleted your default VPC it s gone Now you must specify a subnet in another VPC when you launch an EC2 instance because you can t launch instances into EC2 Classic If you try to delete your default VPC the Delete VPC dialog box displays a warning and requires you to acknowledge that you are aware that you are deleting a default VPC For more information see Deleting Your VPC p 50 If you delete your default VPC and then need to restore it you can contact AWS Support to create a new default VP
140. ck the Launch Instance button from the dashboard Follow the directions in the wizard Choose an AMI choose an instance type and then click Next Configure Instance Details On the Configure Instance Details page select the VPC that you created earlier from the Network list and then select a subnet For example launch a web server into the public subnet and the database server into the private subnet Optional By default instances launched into a nondefault VPC are not assigned a public IP address To be able to connect to your instance you can assign a public IP address now or allocate an Elastic IP address and assign it to your instance after it s launched To assign a public IP address now ensure that you select Enable from the Auto assign Public IP list Note You can only assign a public IP address to a single new network interface with the device index of ethO For more information see Assigning a Public IP Address During Launch p 118 On the next two pages of the wizard you can configure storage for your instance and add tags On the Configure Security Group page select the Select an existing security group option and select a security group for the instance WebServerSG for a web server or DBServerSG for a database server Click Review and Launch Review the settings that you ve chosen Make any changes that you need and then click Launch to choose a key pair and launch your instance For the instances running in t
141. click Next Configure Instance Details On the Configure Instance Details page select the VPC that you created earlier from the Network list and then select a subnet Click Next Add Storage On the next two pages of the wizard you can configure storage for your instance and add tags On the Configure Security Group page select the Select an existing security group option and select the default security group Click Review and Launch Review the settings that you ve chosen Make any changes that you need and then click Launch to choose a keypair and launch your instance In scenario 4 you need a DNS server that enables your VPN only subnet to communicate with servers in your network You must create a new set of DHCP options that includes your DNS server and then configure the VPC to use that set of options Note Your VPC automatically has a set of DHCP options with domain name servers AmazonProvidedDNS This is a DNS server that Amazon provides to enable any public subnets in your VPC to communicate with the Internet over an Internet gateway Scenario 4 doesn t have any public subnets so you don t need this set of DHCP options To update the DHCP options Eoo No o N o g Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click DHCP Options Sets Click the Create DHCP Options Set button In the Create DHCP Options Set dialog box in the Domain name servers box enter the address of your D
142. col You can specify any protocol that has a standard protocol number For more information see Protocol Numbers If you specify ICMP as the protocol you can specify any or all of the ICMP types and codes Inbound rules only The source of the traffic CIDR range and the destination listening port or port range Outbound rules only The destination for the traffic CIDR range and the destination port or port range Choice of allow or deny Default Network ACL To help you understand what ACL rules look like here s what the default network ACL looks like in its initial state It is configured to allow all traffic to flow in and out of each subnet Each network ACL includes a rule whose rule number is an asterisk This rule ensures that if a packet doesn t match any of the other rules it s denied You can t modify or remove this rule Inbound Rule Source IP Protocol Port Allow Deny 100 0 0 0 0 0 All All ALLOW j 0 0 0 0 0 All All DENY API Version 2015 04 15 71 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Example Custom Network ACL Outbound Rule 100 Dest IP Protocol Port 0 0 0 0 0 all all 0 0 0 0 0 all all Example Custom Network ACL The following table shows an example of a custom network ACL It includes rules that allow HTTP and HTTPS traffic in inbound rules 100 and 110 There s a corresponding outbound rule that enables responses to that inbound traffic outbound rule 120 which covers ephemeral
143. create a policy that restricts access to specific S3 buckets only This is useful if you have other AWS services in your VPC that use S3 buckets The following is an example of a policy that restricts access to my_secure_bucket only Statement Sid Access to specific bucket only Principal s Mx Action s3 GetObject s3 PutObject F Effect Allow Resource arn aws s3 my_secure_bucket arn aws s3 my_secure_bucket Using Amazon S3 Bucket Policies You can use bucket policies to control access to buckets from specific endpoints or specific VPCs For more information about bucket policies for Amazon S3 see Using Bucket Policies and User Policies in Amazon Simple Storage Service Developer Guide API Version 2015 04 15 166 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Controlling Access to Services Example Restricting Access to a Specific Endpoint The following is an example of an S3 bucket policy that allows access to a specific bucket my_secure_bucket from endpoint vpce 1a2b3c4d only The policy uses the aws sourceVpce condition to restrict access to the specified endpoint The aws sourceVpce condition does not require an ARN for the VPC endpoint resource only the endpoint ID Version 2012 10 17 Td Policy1415115909152 Statement Sid Access to specific VPCE only Prance pal i mem TACEI On sare Effect
144. ct Allow Action ec2 DeleteVpcPeeringConnection Resource arn aws ec2 region 444455556666 vpc peering connection GondLiion ArnNotEquals ec2 AccepterVpc arn aws ec2 region 444455556666 vpc vpc la2b3c4d ec2 RequesterVpc arn aws ec2 region 444455556666 vpc vpc la2b3c4d d Working within a specific account The following policy allows users to work with VPC peering connections entirely within a specific account Users can view create accept reject and delete VPC peering connections provided they are all within AWS account 333333333333 The first statement allows users to view all VPC peering connections The Resource element requires a wildcard in this case as this API action DescribeVpcPeeringConnections currently does not support resource level permissions The second statement allows users to create VPC peering connections and allows access to all VPCs in account 333333333333 in order to do so The third statement uses a wildcard as part of the Act ion element to allow all VPC peering connection actions The condition keys ensure that the actions can only be performed on VPC peering connections with VPCs that are part of account 333333333333 For example a user is not allowed to delete a VPC peering connection if either the accepter or requester VPC is in a different account A user cannot create a VPC peering connection with a VPC in a different account API Version 2015 04 15
145. ct the ID of your VPC from the VPC list and click Yes Create PO MS The initial settings for a network ACL block all inbound and outbound traffic The network ACL has no rules except the rule present in every ACL There are no subnets associated with a new ACL Adding and Deleting Rules When you add or delete a rule from an ACL any subnets associated with the ACL are subject to the change You don t have to terminate and relaunch the instances in the subnet the changes take effect after a short period You can t modify rules you can only add and delete rules If you need to change the order of a rule in the ACL you must add a new rule with the new rule number and then delete the original rule To add rules to a network ACL 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc 2 Inthe navigation pane click Network ACLs 3 Inthe details pane select either the Inbound Rules or Outbound Rules tab depending on the type of rule that you need to add and then click Edit 4 In Rule enter a rule number for example 100 The rule number must not already be used in the network ACL We process the rules in order starting with the lowest number Tip We recommend that you leave gaps between the rule numbers such as 100 200 300 rather than using sequential numbers 101 102 103 This makes it easier add a new rule where it belongs without having to renumber the existing rules API Version 2015 04 15 75
146. ction p 157 Rejecting a VPC Peering Connection p 157 Updating Route Tables for Your VPC Peering Connection p 157 e Describing Your VPC Peering Connections p 158 Deleting a VPC Peering Connection p 159 Creating a VPC Peering Connection To create a VPC peering connection first create a request to peer with another VPC You can request a VPC peering connection with another VPC in your account or with a VPC in a different AWS account To activate the request the owner of the peer VPC must accept the request Creating a VPC Peering Connection with Another VPC in Your Account To request a VPC peering connection with a VPC in your account ensure that you have the IDs of the VPCs with which you are creating the VPC peering connection You must both create and accept the VPC peering connection request yourself to activate it To create a VPC peering connection in your account Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click Peering Connections Click Create VPC Peering Connection In the dialog configure the following information and click Create when you are done Pow Ss Name You can optionally name your VPC peering connection Doing so creates a tag with a key of Name and a value that you specify API Version 2015 04 15 155 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Working with VPC Peering Connections Local VPC to peer Select the VPC in your accoun
147. ctions to implement the scenario The following table describes the basic scenarios Scenario Usage Scenario 1 VPC with a Single Run a single tier public facing web application such as a blog or Public Subnet p 17 simple web site Scenario 2 VPC with Public and Run a public facing web application while still maintaining non pub Private Subnets NAT p 22 licly accessible back end servers in a second subnet Scenario 3 VPC with Public and Extend your data center into the cloud and also directly access the Private Subnets and Hardware Internet from your VPC VPN Access p 32 Scenario 4 VPC with a Private Extend your data center into the cloud and leverage Amazon s infra Subnet Only and Hardware VPN structure without exposing your network to the Internet Access p 41 Scenario 1 VPC with a Single Public Subnet The configuration for this scenario includes a virtual private cloud VPC with a single public subnet and an Internet gateway to enable communication over the Internet We recommend this configuration if you need to run a single tier public facing web application such as a blog or a simple website API Version 2015 04 15 17 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Configuration for Scenario 1 Topics Configuration for Scenario 1 p 18 e Basic Components for Scenario 1 p 18 e Routing for Scenario 1 p 19 e Security for Scenario 1 p 19 Implementing Scenario 1 p 20 Confi
148. d The address may be behind a device performing network address translation NAT however NAT traversal NAT T is not supported Create a Virtual Private Gateway To create a virtual private gateway 1 Inthe navigation pane click Virtual Private Gateways and then click Create Virtual Private Gateway You can optionally enter a name for your virtual private gateway and then click Yes Create Select the virtual private gateway that you created and then click Attach to VPC 4 Inthe Attach to VPC dialog box select your VPC from the list and then click Yes Attach on Enable Route Propagation in Your Route Table To enable instances in your VPC to reach your customer gateway you must configure your route table to include the routes used by your VPN connection and point them to your virtual private gateway You can enable route propagation for your route table to automatically propagate those routes to the table for you For static routing the static IP prefixes that you specify for your VPN configuration are propagated to the route table after you ve created the VPN connection For dynamic routing the BGP advertised routes from your customer gateway are propagated to the route table when the status of the VPN connection is UP API Version 2015 04 15 178 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Update Your Security Group to Enable Inbound SSH RDP and ICMP Access To enable route propagation 1 2 In the naviga
149. e Open the Amazon EC2 console at hitips console amazonaws cn ec2 In the navigation pane choose Instances Select the instance choose Actions then Networking and then select Change Security Groups In the Change Security Groups dialog box clear the check box for the currently selected security group and select the new one Choose Assign Security Groups OO N For more information about security groups see Security Groups for Your VPC p 64 Adding Elastic IP Addresses After you ve launched an instance into the subnet you must assign it an Elastic IP address if you want it to be reachable from the Internet API Version 2015 04 15 136 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Creating a VPC with an Internet Gateway Note If you assigned a public IP address to your instance during launch then your instance is reachable from the Internet and you do not need to assign it an Elastic IP address For more information about IP addressing for your instance see IP Addressing in Your VPC p 116 To allocate an Elastic IP address and assign it to an instance using the console 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc 2 Inthe navigation pane choose Elastic IPs 3 Choose Allocate New Address 4 Inthe Allocate New Address dialog box in the Network platform list select EC2 VPC and then choose Yes Allocate 5 Select the Elastic IP address from the list and then choose Associate Addr
150. e Select the network ACL and then click the Delete button In the Delete Network ACL dialog box click Yes Delete PO NO API and Command Overview You can perform the tasks described on this page using the command line or an API For more information about the command line interfaces and a list of available APIs see Accessing Amazon VPC p 6 Create a network ACL for your VPC create network acl AWS CLI e ec2 create network acl Amazon EC2 CLI e New EC2NetworkAcl AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell API Version 2015 04 15 77 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Recommended Network ACL Rules for Your VPC Describe one or more of your network ACLs e describe network acls AWS CLI ec2 describe network acls Amazon EC2 CLI e Get EC2NetworkAcl AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Add a rule to a network ACL create network acl entry AWS CLI ec2 create network acl entry Amazon EC2 CLI e New EC2NetworkAclEntry AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Delete a rule from a network ACL e delete network acl entry AWS CLI e ec2 delete network acl entry Amazon EC2 CLI e Remove EC2NetworkAclEntry AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Replace an existing rule in a network ACL replace network acl entry AWS CLI ec2 replace network acl entry Amazon EC2 CLI e Set EC2NetworkAclEntry AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Replace a network ACL association replace network acl association AWS CLI ec2 re
151. e endpoint for as long as this remains the public IP address range for Amazon S3 Destination Target 10 0 0 0 16 Local 54 123 165 0 24 igw 1a2b3c4d pl 1a2b3c4d vpce 11bb22cc To ensure that all traffic destined for Amazon S3 in the same region is routed via the endpoint you must adjust the routes in your route table To do this you can delete the route to the Internet gateway Now all traffic to Amazon S3 in the same region uses the endpoint and the subnet that s associated with your route table is a private subnet Destination Target 10 0 0 0 16 Local pl 1a2b3c4d vpce 1 1bb22cc Endpoints for Amazon S3 If you ve already set up access to your Amazon S3 resources from your VPC you can continue to use Amazon S3 DNS names to access those resources after you ve set up an endpoint However take note of the following e Your endpoint has a policy that controls the use of the endpoint to access Amazon S3 resources The default policy allows access by any user or service within the VPC using credentials from any AWS account to any Amazon S3 resource including Amazon S3 resources for an AWS account other than the account with which the VPC is associated For more information see Controlling Access to Services p 165 The source IP addresses from instances in your affected subnets as received by Amazon S3 will change from public IP addresses to the private IP addresses from your VPC An endpoint switches network routes and disconnect
152. e Cloud User Guide DHCP Options Sets DHCP Press Ctrl C on your keyboard to cancel the ping command From your NAT instance connect to your instance in your private subnet by using its private IP address for example PROMPT gt ssh ec2 user 10 0 1 123 From your private instance test that you can connect to the Internet by running the ping command PROMPT gt ping ietf org PING ietf org 4 31 198 44 56 84 bytes of data 64 bytes from mail ietf org 4 31 198 44 icmp_seq 1 ttl 47 time 86 0 ms 64 bytes from mail ietf org 4 31 198 44 icmp_seq 2 tt1l 47 time 75 6 ms Press Ctrl C on your keyboard to cancel the ping command If the ping command fails check the following information Check that your NAT instance s security group rules allow inbound ICMP traffic from your private subnet If not your NAT instance cannot receive the ping command from your private instance Check that you ve configured your route tables correctly For more information see Updating the Main Route Table p 143 Ensure that you ve disabled source destination checking for your NAT instance For more information see Disabling Source Destination Checks p 142 Ensure that you are pinging a website that has ICMP enabled If not you will not receive reply packets To test this perform the same ping command from the command line terminal on your own computer Optional Terminate your private instance if you no longer requ
153. e Differences Between Security Groups for EC2 Classic and EC2 VPC p 66 Working with Security Groups p 67 API and CLI Overview p 69 Security Group Basics The following are the basic characteristics of security groups for your VPC e You can create up to 100 security groups per VPC You can add up to 50 rules to each security group If you need to apply more than 50 rules to an instance you can associate up to 5 security groups with each network interface For more information about network interfaces see Elastic Network Interfaces ENI You can specify allow rules but not deny rules You can specify separate rules for inbound and outbound traffic By default no inbound traffic is allowed until you add inbound rules to the security group By default an outbound rule allows all outbound traffic You can remove the rule and add outbound rules that allow specific outbound traffic only Security groups are stateful responses to allowed inbound traffic are allowed to flow outbound regardless of outbound rules and vice versa Instances associated with a security group can t talk to each other unless you add rules allowing it exception the default security group has these rules by default After you launch an instance you can change which security groups the instance is associated with For information about increasing the limits related to security groups see Amazon VPC Limits p 194 Default Security Group for
154. e VPC We recommend that you specify a CIDR block from the private non publicly routable IP address ranges as specified in RFC 1918 for example 10 0 0 0 16 or192 168 0 0 16 It s possible to specify a range of publicly routable IP addresses however we currently do not support direct access to the Internet from publicly routable CIDR blocks in a API Version 2015 04 15 49 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Deleting Your VPC VPC Windows instances cannot boot correctly if launched into a VPC with ranges from 224 0 0 0 to 255 255 255 255 Class D and Class E IP address ranges For more information about IP addresses see IP Addressing in Your VPC p 116 Select a tenancy option for example a dedicated tenancy that ensures your instances run on single tenant hardware For more information about dedicated instances see Dedicated Instances p 188 Deleting Your VPC You can delete your VPC at any time for example if you decide it s too small However you must terminate all instances in the VPC first When you delete a VPC using the VPC console we delete all its components such as subnets security groups network ACLs route tables Internet gateways VPC peering connections and DHCP options If you have a VPN connection you don t have to delete it or the other components related to the VPN such as the customer gateway and virtual private gateway If you plan to use the customer gateway with another VPC we rec
155. e a rule any instances already assigned to the security group are subject to the change You can t modify rules you can only add and delete rules API Version 2015 04 15 67 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Working with Security Groups Several of the scenarios presented in this guide include instructions for adding rules to security groups For an example see Recommended Security Groups p 35 To add a rule 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click Security Groups 3 Select the security group to update The details pane displays the details for the security group plus tabs for working with its inbound rules and outbound rules 4 On the Inbound Rules tab click Edit Select an option for a rule for inbound traffic from the Type list and then fill in the required information For example select HTTP or HTTPS and specify the Source as 0 0 0 0 0 Click Save when you are done 5 You can also allow communication between all instances associated with this security group On the Inbound Rules tab select All Traffic from the Type list Start typing the ID of the security group in the Source field this provides you with a list of security groups Select the security group from the list and then click Save 6 If you need to you can use the Outbound Rules tab to add rules for outbound traffic To delete a rule 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console a
156. e ec2 detach vpn gateway Amazon EC2 CLI detach vpn gateway AWS CLI e Dismount EC2VpnGateway AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Delete a virtual private gateway e DeleteVpnGateway Amazon EC2 Query API e ec2 delete vpn gateway Amazon EC2 CLI e delete vpn gateway AWS CLI e Remove EC2VpnGateway AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell API Version 2015 04 15 184 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Providing Secure Communication Between Sites Using VPN CloudHub If you have multiple VPN connections you can provide secure communication between sites using the AWS VPN CloudHub The VPN CloudHub operates on a simple hub and spoke model that you can use with or without a VPC This design is suitable for customers with multiple branch offices and existing Internet connections who d like to implement a convenient potentially low cost hub and spoke model for primary or backup connectivity between these remote offices The following diagram shows the VPN CloudHub architecture with blue dashed lines indicating network traffic between remote sites being routed over their VPN connections API Version 2015 04 15 185 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Customer Gateway ASN 6500 Customer Network New York EC2 Instances Customer VPC Subnet 1 Gateway Customer Network Private Los Angeles EC2 Instances VPC Subnet 2 Customer Gateway Customer Network Amazon VPC ASN 6502 Miami To use the AWS VPN
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158. e next page of the wizard select Dedicated from the Hardware tenancy list Click the Create VPC button to create the VPC Of OS To create a VPC with an instance tenancy of dedicated Create VPC dialog box 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc 2 Inthe navigation pane click Your VPCs and then click Create VPC 3 Inthe Create VPC dialog box select Dedicated from the Tenancy drop down list Specify the CIDR Block and then click Yes Create Launching Dedicated Instances into a VPC If you launch an instance into a VPC that has an instance tenancy of dedicated your instance is automatically a Dedicated Instance regardless of the tenancy of the instance The following procedure shows you how to launch a Dedicated Instance into a VPC that has default instance tenancy To launch a Dedicated Instance into a VPC with default instance tenancy Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc Create a VPC or decide to use an existing VPC with default instance tenancy Open the Amazon EC2 console at https console amazonaws cn ec2 Click the Launch Instance button On the Choose an Amazon Machine Image AMI page choose an AMI and click Select On the Choose an Instance Type page select the type of instance you want to launch then click Next Configure Instance Details 7 Onthe Configure Instance Details page select a VPC and subnet Select Dedicated tenancy from the Tenancy list a
159. e or network interface for your VPC With an Elastic IP address you can mask the failure of an instance by rapidly remapping the address to another instance in your VPC Note that the advantage of associating the Elastic IP address with the network interface instead of directly with the instance is that you can move all the attributes of the network interface from one instance to another in a single step Topics e Elastic IP Address Basics p 119 e Working with Elastic IP Addresses p 120 API and Command Overview p 121 Elastic IP Address Basics The following are the basic things that you need to know about Elastic IP addresses You first allocate an Elastic IP address for use in a VPC and then associate it with an instance in your VPC it can be assigned to only one instance at a time An Elastic IP address is a property of network interfaces You can associate an Elastic IP address with an instance by updating the network interface attached to the instance If you associate an Elastic IP address with the ethO network interface of your instance its current public IP address if it had one is released to the EC2 VPC public IP address pool If you disassociate the Elastic IP address the ethO network interface is automatically assigned a new public IP address within a few minutes This doesn t apply if you ve attached a second network interface to your instance There are differences between an Elastic IP address that you use in a
160. e policy that you attach to an endpoint when you create or modify the endpoint If you do not attach a policy when you create an endpoint we attach a default policy for you that allows full access to the service An endpoint policy does not override or replace IAM user policies or S3 bucket policies It is a separate policy for controlling access from the endpoint to the specified service However all types of policies IAM user policies endpoint policies S3 policies and Amazon S3 ACL policies if any must grant the necessary permissions for access to Amazon S3 to succeed You cannot attach more than one policy to an endpoint however you can modify the policy at any time Note that if you do modify a policy it can take a few minutes for the changes to take effect For more information see Modifying an Endpoint p 169 For more information about writing policies see Overview of AWS IAM Policies in IAM User Guide Your endpoint policy can be like any IAM policy however take note of the following Only the parts of the policy that relate to the specified service will work You cannot use an endpoint policy to allow resources in your VPC to perform other actions for example if you add EC2 actions to an endpoint policy for an endpoint to Amazon S3 they will have no effect Your policy must contain a Principal element For more information see Principal in JAM User Guide Example Restricting Access to a Specific Bucket You can
161. eased upon request Security groups per VPC 100 You can request an increase for this limit however an increase is not guaranteed Network performance may be impacted de pending on the way the security groups are configured We may reject a request if such a performance risk exists Rules per security group 50 This limit can be increased or decreased upon request however the multiple of the limit for rules per security group and the limit for security groups per network interface cannot exceed 250 For example if you want 100 rules per security group we decrease your number of security groups per network interface to 2 Security groups per network interface 5 This limit can be increased or decreased upon request up to a maximum of 16 The multiple of the limit for security groups per network interface and the limit for rules per security group cannot exceed 250 For ex ample if you want 10 security groups per network interface we decrease your number of rules per security group to 25 Network interfaces per instance This limit varies by instance type For more information see Private IP Addresses Per ENI Per Instance Type Network interfaces per VPC 100 This limit is calculated by multiplying your On Demand instance limit by 5 The default limit for On Demand instances is 20 You can increase the number of network inter faces per VPC by request or by increasing your On Demand instance limit Network ACLs per VPC 200
162. eate a tag for the security group with a key of Name and a value that you specify Select the ID of your VPC from the VPC menu and then choose Yes Create Select the WebServerSG security group that you just created you can view its name in the Group Name column On the Inbound Rules tab choose Edit and add rules for inbound traffic as follows and then choose Save when you re done a Select HTTP from the Type list and enter 0 0 0 0 0 in the Source field b Choose Add another rule then select HTTPS from the Type list and enter 0 0 0 0 0 in the Source field c Choose Add another rule If you re launching a Linux instance select SSH from the Type list or if you re launching a Windows instance select RDP from the Type list Enter your network s public IP address range in the Source field If you don t know this address range you can use 0 0 0 0 0 for this exercise Caution If you use 0 0 0 0 0 you enable all IP addresses to access your instance using SSH or RDP This is acceptable for the short exercise but it s unsafe for production environments In production you ll authorize only a specific IP address or range of addresses to access your instance API Version 2015 04 15 12 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Step 3 Launch an Instance into Your VPC Summary Inbound Rules Outbound Rules Tags Cancel save Type Protocol Port Range Source Remove HTTP 80 TCP 6 80 0 0 0 0 0 i x HTTPS 443 TCP 6
163. eate is automatically associated with the VPC s default network ACL You can change the association and you can change the contents of the default network ACL For more information see Network ACLs p 70 You can create a flow log on your VPC or subnet to capture the traffic that flows to and from the network interfaces in your VPC or subnet You can also create a flow log on an individual network interface Flow logs are published to CloudWatch Logs For more information see VPC Flow Logs p 106 API Version 2015 04 15 53 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Adding a Subnet to Your VPC Adding a Subnet to Your VPC When you add a new subnet to your VPC you must set up the routing and security that you want for the subnet You can do this manually as described in this section or let the VPC wizard set things up for you as described in VPC Wizard Scenarios for Amazon VPC p 17 To add a subnet to your VPC 1 Create the subnet Open the Amazon VPC console at htips console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane choose Subnets Choose Create Subnet In the Create Subnet dialog box optionally name your subnet and then select the VPC select the Availability Zone specify the CIDR range for the subnet and then choose Yes Create oppg Set up routing for the subnet For example you can add a route to an Internet gateway or a NAT instance For more information see Route Tables p 123 Optional Create
164. ect RDP from the Type list and enter the IP address range of your network in the Source field Click Add another rule then select MS SQL from the Type list Specify the ID of your WebServerSG security group in the Source field Click Add another rule then select MYSQL from the Type list Specify the ID of your WebServerSG security group in the Source field Click Save On the Outbound Rules tab click Edit and add rules for outbound traffic as follows Locate the default rule that enables all outbound traffic and then click Remove Select HTTP from the Type list In the Destination field enter 0 0 0 0 0 Click Add another rule then select HTTPS from the Type list In the Destination field enter 0 0 0 0 0 Click Save API Version 2015 04 15 39 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Implementing Scenario 3 After your network administrator configures your customer gateway you can launch instances into your VPC If you re already familiar with launching instances outside a VPC then you already know most of what you need to know to launch an instance into a VPC To launch an instance web server or database server 1 Create the WebServerSG and DBServerSG security groups if you haven t done so already see Security for Scenario 3 p 35 You ll specify one of these security groups when you launch the instance Start the launch wizard a Open the Amazon EC2 console at htips console amazonaws cn ec2 b Cli
165. ected future growth but not one that overlaps with current or expected future subnets anywhere in your corporate or home network or that overlaps with current or future VPCs Creating a VPC There are two ways to create a VPC using the Amazon VPC console the Create VPC dialog box and the VPC wizard The following procedure uses the Create VPC dialog box which creates only the VPC you d need to subsequently add subnets gateways and routing tables For information about using the VPC wizard to create a VPC plus its subnets gateways and routing tables in one step see VPC Wizard Scenarios for Amazon VPC p 17 Note EC2 Classic If you use the launch wizard in the Amazon EC2 console to launch a T2 instance type and you do not have any existing VPCs the wizard creates a nondefault VPC for you with a subnet in each Availability Zone an Internet gateway and a route table that routes all VPC traffic to the Internet gateway For more information about T2 instance types see T2 Instances in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances To create a VPC 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc 2 Inthe navigation pane choose Your VPCs 3 Choose Create VPC 4 Inthe Create VPC dialog box specify the following VPC details as necessary then choose Yes Create Optionally provide a name for your VPC Doing so creates a tag with a key of Name and the value that you specify Specify a CIDR block for th
166. ee Deleting Your VPC p 50 API Version 2015 04 15 48 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Connections with Your Local Network and Other VPCs Connections with Your Local Network and Other VPCs You can optionally set up a connection between your VPC and your corporate or home network If you have an IP address prefix in your VPC that overlaps with one of your networks prefixes any traffic to the network s prefix is dropped For example let s say that you have the following e AVPC with CIDR block 10 0 0 0 16 e A subnet in that VPC with CIDR block 10 0 1 0 24 e Instances running in that subnet with IP addresses 10 0 1 4 and10 0 1 5 On premises host networks using CIDR blocks 10 0 37 0 24 and 10 1 38 0 24 When those instances in the VPC try to talk to hosts in the 10 0 37 0 24 address space the traffic is dropped because 10 0 37 0 24 is part of the larger prefix assigned to the VPC 10 0 0 0 16 The instances can talk to hosts in the 10 1 38 0 24 space because that block isn t part of 10 0 0 0 16 You can also create a VPC peering connection between your VPCs or with a VPC in another AWS account A VPC peering connection enables you to route traffic between the VPCs using private IP addresses however you cannot create a VPC peering connection between VPCs that have overlapping CIDR blocks For more information see VPC Peering p 152 We therefore recommend that you create a VPC with a CIDR range large enough for exp
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170. elete both these resources Version 2012 10 17 Statement Effect Allow Action ec2 DescribeVpcs ec2 DescribeRouteTables ec2 DescribeVpnGateways ec2 DescribeInternetGateways ec2 DescribeSubnets ec2 DescribeDhcpOptions ec2 DescribelIn stances ec2 DescribeVpcAttribute ec2 DescribeNetworkAcls ec2 DescribeNetworkInterfaces ec2 D scribeAddresses ec2 DescribeVpcPeeringConnections ec2 DescribeSecurityGroups ec2 CreateVpc ec2 DeleteVpc ec2 DetachInternetGateway ec2 DeleteInternetGateway ec2 DisassociateRouteTable ec2 DeleteSubnet ec2 DeleteRouteTable l Resource You can t apply resource level permissions to any of the ec2 Describe API actions but you can apply resource level permissions to some of the ec2 Delete actions to control which resources users can delete For example the following policy allows users to delete only route tables and Internet gateways that have the tag Purpose Test Users cannot delete individual route tables or Internet gateways that do not have this tag and similarly users cannot use the VPC console to delete a VPC that s associated with a different route table or Internet gateway API Version 2015 04 15 103 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Example Policies for the Console Version 2012 10 17 Statement Effect Allow Action
171. emove to delete them Click Add Another Route to add a new IP prefix to your configuration When you are done click Save Note If you have not enabled route propagation for your route table you must manually update the routes in your route table to reflect the updated static IP prefixes in your VPN connection For more information see Enable Route Propagation in Your Route Table p 178 API Version 2015 04 15 181 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Deleting a VPN Connection Deleting a VPN Connection If you no longer need a VPN connection you can delete it Important If you delete your VPN connection and then create a new one you have to download new configuration information and have your network administrator reconfigure the customer gateway To delete a VPN connection Open the Amazon VPC console In the navigation pane click VPN Connections Select the VPN connection and click Delete In the Delete VPN Connection dialog box click Yes Delete Po MS If you no longer require a customer gateway you can delete it You can t delete a customer gateway that s being used in a VPN connection To delete a customer gateway 1 Inthe navigation pane click Customer Gateways 2 Select the customer gateway to delete and click Delete 3 Inthe Delete Customer Gateway dialog box click Yes Delete If you no longer require a virtual private gateway for your VPC you can detach it To detach a virtual private gate
172. endpoint An endpoint route is automatically added to the route table with a destination of p1 1a2b3c4d assume this represents Amazon S3 Now any traffic from the subnet that s destined for Amazon S3 in the same region goes to the endpoint and does not go to the Internet gateway All other Internet traffic goes to your Internet gateway including traffic that s destined for other services and destined for Amazon S3 in other regions Destination Target 10 0 0 0 16 Local 0 0 0 0 0 igw 1a2b3c4d pl 1a2b3c4d vpce 1 1bb22cc Example Adjusting Your Route Tables for Endpoints API Version 2015 04 15 162 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Endpoint Basics In this scenario you have configured your route table to enable instances in your subnet to communicate with Amazon S3 buckets through an Internet gateway You ve added a route with 54 123 165 0 24 as a destination assume this is an IP address range currently within Amazon S3 and the Internet gateway as the target You then create an endpoint and associate this route table with the endpoint An endpoint route is automatically added to the route table You then use the describe prefix lists command to view the IP address range for Amazon S3 The range is 54 123 160 0 19 which is less specific than the range that s pointing to your Internet gateway This means that any traffic destined for the 54 123 165 0 24 IP address range continues to use the Internet gateway and does not use th
173. erverSG se TCP curity group Protocol Protocol Port Range 80 443 22 3389 Port Range 1433 3306 Comments Allow inbound HTTP access to the web servers from anywhere Allow inbound HTTPS access to the web servers from anywhere Allow inbound SSH access to Linux instances from your home network over the Internet gateway Allow inbound RDP access to Win dows instances from your home net work over the Internet gateway Comments Allow outbound Microsoft SQL Server access to the database servers as signed to DBServerSG Allow outbound MySQL access to the database servers assigned to DB ServerSG The NATSG security group is the security group that you ll specify when you launch a NAT instance into your public subnet The following table describes the recommended rules for this security group which allow the NAT instance to receive Internet bound traffic from instances in the private subnet as well as SSH traffic from your network The NAT instance can also send traffic to the Internet so that instances in the private subnet can get software updates NATSG Recommended Rules Inbound Source 10 0 1 0 24 TCP 10 0 1 0 24 TCP Your network s public IP address TCP range Protocol Port Range 80 443 22 Comments Allow inbound HTTP traffic from data base servers in the private subnet Allow inbound HTTPS traffic from database servers in the private subnet Allow inbound SSH access t
174. ess 6 Inthe Associate Address dialog box select Instance or Network Interface from the Associate with list and then either the instance or network interface ID Select the private IP address to associate the Elastic IP address with from the Private IP address list and then choose Yes Associate For more information about Elastic IP addresses see Elastic IP Addresses p 119 Detaching an Internet Gateway from Your VPC If you no longer need Internet access for instances that you launch into a nondefault VPC you can detach an Internet gateway from a VPC You can t detach an Internet gateway if the VPC has instances with associated Elastic IP addresses To detach an Internet gateway Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane choose Elastic IPs Select the IP address choose Disassociate Address and then choose Yes Disassociate In the navigation pane choose Internet Gateways Select the Internet gateway and choose Detach from VPC In the Detach from VPC dialog box choose Yes Detach Oo Pak Deleting an Internet Gateway If you no longer need an Internet gateway you can delete it You can t delete an Internet gateway if it s still attached to a VPC To delete an Internet gateway Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane choose Internet Gateways Select the Internet gateway and choose Delete In the Delete Internet Gateway
175. est numbered rule to determine whether traffic is allowed in or out of any subnet associated with the network ACL The highest number that you can use for a rule is 32766 We suggest that you start by creating rules with rule numbers that are multiples of 100 so that you can insert new rules where you need to later on Anetwork ACL has separate inbound and outbound rules and each rule can either allow or deny traffic Your VPC automatically comes with a modifiable default network ACL by default it allows all inbound and outbound traffic You can create custom network ACLs each custom network ACL starts out closed permits no traffic until you add a rule Each subnet must be associated with a network ACL if you don t explicitly associate a subnet with a network ACL the subnet is automatically associated with the default network ACL Network ACLs are stateless responses to allowed inbound traffic are subject to the rules for outbound traffic and vice versa For information about the number of network ACLs you can create see Amazon VPC Limits p 194 Network ACL Rules You can add or remove rules from the default network ACL or create additional network ACLs for your VPC When you add or remove rules from a network ACL the changes are automatically applied to the subnets it s associated with The following are the parts of a network ACL rule Rule number Rules are evaluated starting with the lowest numbered rule e Proto
176. etwork interface and choose the Flow Logs tab Information about the flow logs is displayed on the tab API Version 2015 04 15 111 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Troubleshooting To view information about your flow logs for your VPCs or subnets 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc 2 Inthe navigation pane choose Your VPCs or choose Subnets 3 Select your VPC or subnet and then choose the Flow Logs tab Information about the flow logs is displayed on the tab You can view your flow log records using the CloudWatch Logs console It may take a few minutes after you ve created your flow log for it to be visible in the console To view your flow log records for a flow log Open the CloudWatch console at https console amazonaws cn cloudwatch In the navigation pane choose Logs Choose the name of the log group that contains your flow log A list of log streams for each network interface is displayed Choose the name of the log stream that contains the ID of the network interface for which you want to view the flow log records For more information about flow log records see Flow Log Records p 108 fo NS Deleting a Flow Log You can delete a flow log using the Amazon EC2 and Amazon VPC consoles Note These procedures disable the flow log service for a resource To delete the log streams for your network interfaces use the CloudWatch Logs console To delete a flow log for a
177. f the request was created within the same AWS account the rejected request remains visible for 2 hours Provisioning The VPC peering connection request has been accepted and will soon be in the active state Active The VPC peering connection is active During this state either of the VPC owners can delete the VPC peering connection but cannot reject it Deleted An active VPC peering connection has been deleted by either of the VPC owners ora pending acceptance VPC peering connection request has been deleted by the owner of the requester VPC During this state the VPC peering connection cannot be accepted or rejected The VPC peering connection remains visible to the party that deleted it for 2 hours and visible to the other party for 2 days If the VPC peering connection was created within the same AWS account the deleted request remains visible for 2 hours VPC Peering Limitations To create a VPC peering connection with another VPC you need to be aware of the following limitations and rules e You cannot create a VPC peering connection between VPCs that have matching or overlapping CIDR blocks API Version 2015 04 15 154 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Working with VPC Peering Connections You cannot create a VPC peering connection between VPCs in different regions You have a limit on the number active and pending VPC peering connections that you can have per VPC For more information about VPC lim
178. for Your EC2 Instance When you launch an instance into the EC2 Classic platform or into a default VPC we provide the instance with public and private DNS hostnames Instances that you launch into a nondefault VPC might have public and private DNS hostnames depending on the settings you specify for the VPC and for the instance You can view the DNS hostnames for a running instance or a network interface using the Amazon EC2 console or the command line Instance To view DNS hosinames for an instance using the console Open the Amazon EC2 console In the navigation pane click Instances Select the instance from the list In the Description tab in the details pane review the values of the Public DNS and Private DNS fields ooo NS To view DNS hostnames for an instance using the command line You can use one of the following commands For more information about these command line interfaces see Accessing Amazon VPC p 6 e describe instances AWS CLI e ec2 describe instances Amazon EC2 CLI e Get EC2Instance AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Network Interface To view DNS hostnames for a network interface using the console Open the Amazon EC2 console In the navigation pane click Network Interfaces Select the network interface from the list In the Details tab for the network interface review the values of the Public DNS and Private DNS fields foe eS API Version 2015 04 15 150 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
179. for your VPN connection have been compromised you can change the IKE preshared key To do so delete the VPN connection create a new one using the same virtual private gateway and configure the new keys on your customer gateway You also need to confirm that the tunnel s inside and outside addresses match because these might change when you recreate the VPN connection While you perform the procedure communication with your instances in the VPC stops but the instances continue to run uninterrupted After the network administrator implements the new configuration information your VPN connection uses the new credentials and the network connection to your instances in the VPC resumes Important This procedure requires assistance from your network administrator group To change the IKE pre shared key 1 Delete the VPN connection For more information see Deleting a VPN Connection p 182 You don t need to delete the VPC or the virtual private gateway 2 Create a new VPN connection and download the new configuration file For more information see Create a VPN Connection and Configure the Customer Gateway p 179 Editing Static Routes for a VPN Connection For static routing you can add modify or remove the static routes for your VPN configuration To add modify or remove a static route 1 Inthe navigation pane click VPN Connections 2 Inthe Static Routes tab click Edit 3 Modify your existing static IP prefixes or click R
180. g an Elastic IP address You can create a network interface and attach and detach it from instances in your VPC The advantage of making the Elastic IP address an attribute of the network interface instead of associating it directly with the instance is that you can move all the attributes of the network interface from one instance to another in a single step For more information see Elastic Network Interfaces 5 Optional After you associate the Elastic IP address with your instance it receives a DNS hostname if DNS hostnames are enabled For more information see Using DNS with Your VPC p 149 To change which instance an Elastic IP address is associated with disassociate it from the currently associated instance and then associate it with the new instance in the VPC To disassociate an Elastic IP address Open the Amazon VPC console Click Elastic IPs in the navigation pane Select the Elastic IP address and then click the Disassociate Address button When prompted click Yes Disassociate PO NS API Version 2015 04 15 120 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Elastic IP Addresses If you no longer need an Elastic IP address we recommend that you release it the address must not be associated with an instance You incur charges for any Elastic IP address that s allocated for use with a VPC but not associated with an instance To release an Elastic IP address Open the Amazon VPC console Click Elastic IPs in
181. gateway If you re using the command line tools or API to set up your VPC you must update the route tables yourself API Version 2015 04 15 127 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Working with Route Tables Topics Determining Which Route Table a Subnet Is Associated With p 128 Determining Which Subnets Are Explicitly Associated with a Table p 128 Creating a Custom Route Table p 129 Adding and Removing Routes from a Route Table p 129 Enabling and Disabling Route Propagation p 129 Associating a Subnet with a Route Table p 130 Changing a Subnet s Route Table p 130 Disassociating a Subnet from a Route Table p 130 Replacing the Main Route Table p 130 Deleting a Route Table p 131 Determining Which Route Table a Subnet Is Associated With You can determine which route table a subnet is associated with by looking at the subnet s details in the Amazon VPC Console To determine which route table a subnet is associated with 1 Open the Amazon VPC console 2 Click Subnets in the navigation pane and then select the subnet The subnet details are displayed in the Summary tab Click the Route Table tab to view the route table ID and its routes If it s the main route table the console doesn t indicate whether the association is implicit or explicit To determine if the association to the main route table is explicit see Determining Which Subnets Are Explicitly Associated with a Table p 128 De
182. gateway which is specified using its AWS assigned identifier for example vgw 1a2b3c4d The third row sends all other subnet traffic to the NAT instance which is specified by its AWS assigned identifier for example i 1a2b3c4d Destination Target 10 0 0 0 16 local 172 16 0 0 12 VQW XXXXXXXX 0 0 0 0 0 i XXXXXXXX API Version 2015 04 15 34 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Security for Scenario 3 For information about setting up a NAT instance manually see NAT Instances p 138 For information about using the VPC wizard to set up a NAT instance see Scenario 2 VPC with Public and Private Subnets NAT p 22 Security for Scenario 3 AWS provides two features that you can use to increase security in your VPC security groups and network ACLs Both features enable you to control the inbound and outbound traffic for your instances but security groups work at the instance level while network ACLs work at the subnet level Security groups alone can meet the needs of many VPC users However some VPC users decide to use both security groups and network ACLs to take advantage of the additional layer of security that network ACLs provide For more information about security groups and network ACLs and how they differ see Security in Your VPC p 62 For scenario 3 you ll use security groups but not network ACLs If you d like to use a network ACL see Recommended Rules for Scenario 3 p 83 Topics e Recommended Secur
183. ge AMI page choose an AMI and then click Select Choose an instance type and then click Next Configure Instance Details On the Configure Instance Details page select your VPC from the Network list and your subnet from the Subnet list Click Next until you reach the Configure Security Group page 6 Select the Select an existing security group option and then select the default group that you modified earlier Click Review and Launch 7 Review the settings that you ve chosen Make any changes that you need and then click Launch to select a key pair and launch the instance oF oN gt Testing the End to End Connectivity of Your Instance After you set up your VPN connection and launch an instance you can test the connection by pinging the instance You need to use an AMI that responds to ping requests and you need to ensure that your instance s security group is configured to enable inbound ICMP We recommend you use one of the Amazon Linux AMIs If you are using instances running Windows Server you ll need to log in to the instance and enable inbound ICMPv4 on the Windows firewall in order to ping the instance Important You must configure any security group or network ACL in your VPC that filters traffic to the instance to allow inbound and outbound ICMP traffic You can monitor the status of your VPN connections using the Amazon VPC console or by using the Amazon EC2 API CLI You can view information about your VPN connectio
184. ge choose View Instances to view your instance on the Instances page Select your instance and view its details in the Description tab The Private IPs field displays the private IP address that s assigned to your instance from the range of IP addresses in your subnet For more information about the options available in the Amazon EC2 launch wizard see Launching an Instance in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances Step 4 Assign an Elastic IP Address to Your Instance In the previous step you launched your instance into a public subnet a subnet that has a route to an Internet gateway However the instance in your subnet also needs a public IP address to be able to communicate with the Internet By default an instance in a nondefault VPC is not assigned a public IP address In this step you ll allocate an Elastic IP address to your account and then associate it with your instance For more information about Elastic IP addresses see Elastic IP Addresses p 119 The following diagram represents the architecture of your VPC after you ve completed this step API Version 2015 04 15 14 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Step 5 Clean Up Custom Route Table Destination Target EC2 Instance ae 10 0 0 016 10 0 0 6 i EIP 198 51 100 2 Subnet 10 0 0 0 24 10 0 0 0 16 local Availabilty Zone B VPC 10 0 0 0 16 To allocate and assign an Elastic IP address 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at http
185. ge of your private subnet for example 10 0 1 0 24 Click Save 7 Click Add Rule select All ICMP from the Type list and select Custom IP from the Source list Enter 0 0 0 0 0 and then click Save To launch an instance into your private subnet 1 Open the Amazon EC2 console at https console amazonaws cn ec2 2 Inthe navigation pane click Instances 3 Launch an instance into your private subnet For more information see Launching an Instance into Your Subnet p 54 Ensure that you configure the following options in the launch wizard and then click Launch API Version 2015 04 15 143 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Testing Your NAT Instance Configuration On the Choose an Amazon Machine Image AMI page select an Amazon Linux AMI from the Quick Start category On the Configure Instance Details page select your private subnet from the Subnet list and do not assign a public IP address to your instance On the Configure Security Group page ensure that your security group includes an inbound rule that allows SSH access from your NAT instance s private IP address or from the IP address range of your public subnet and ensure that you have an outbound rule that allows outbound ICMP traffic Inthe Select an existing key pair or create a new key pair dialog box select the same key pair you used to launch the NAT instance To configure SSH agent forwarding for Linux or OS X 1 2 From your loc
186. gectaned dee E A A 200 API Version 2015 04 15 vi Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Amazon VPC Concepts What is Amazon VPC Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Amazon VPC enables you to launch Amazon Web Services AWS resources into a virtual network that you ve defined This virtual network closely resembles a traditional network that you d operate in your own data center with the benefits of using the scalable infrastructure of AWS For more information about the benefits of using a VPC see Benefits of Using a VPC in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances Topics Amazon VPC Concepts p 1 How to Get Started with Amazon VPC p 5 Services that Support Amazon VPC p 6 Accessing Amazon VPC p 6 Pricing for Amazon VPC p 7 Amazon VPC Limits p 7 Amazon VPC Concepts As you get started with Amazon VPC you should understand the key concepts of this virtual network and how it is similar to or different from your own networks This section provides a brief description of the key concepts for Amazon VPC Amazon VPC is the networking layer for Amazon EC2 If you re new to Amazon EC2 see What is Amazon EC2 in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances to get a brief overview VPCs and Subnets A virtual private cloud VPC is a virtual network dedicated to your AWS account It is logically isolated from other virtual networks in the AWS cloud You can launch your AWS resources such as Amazon EC2 i
187. ging an instance s security group you can select multiple groups from the list The security groups that you select replace the current security groups for the instance e Repeat the preceding steps for each instance Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click Security Groups Select the 2009 07 15 default security group and then click the Delete button In the Delete Security Group dialog box click Yes Delete API and CLI Overview You can perform the tasks described on this page using the command line or an API For more information about the command line interfaces and a list of available APIs see Accessing Amazon VPC p 6 ak oO N Create a security group create security group AWS CLI e ec2 create group Amazon EC2 CLI e New EC2SecurityGroup AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell API Version 2015 04 15 69 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Network ACLs Add a rule to a security group e authorize security group ingress and authorize security group egress AWS CLI e ec2 authorize Amazon EC2 CLI Grant EC2SecurityGroupIngress and Grant EC2SecurityGroupEgress AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Describe one or more security groups describe security groups AWS CLI ec2 describe group Amazon EC2 CLI e Get EC2SecurityGroup AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Modify the security groups for an instance e modify instance attribute AWS CLI
188. guration for Scenario 1 The following diagram shows the key components of the configuration for this scenario Custom Route Table Destination Target 10 0 0 0 16 local 10 0 0 6 198 51 100 2 EIP EC2 Instance Public subnet 10 0 0 0 24 10 0 0 0 16 Note If you completed the exercise Getting Started with Amazon VPC p 8 then you ve already implemented this scenario using the VPC wizard in the Amazon VPC console Basic Components for Scenario 1 The following list describes the basic components presented in the configuration diagram for this scenario e A virtual private cloud VPC of size 16 example CIDR 10 0 0 0 16 This provides 65 536 private IP addresses e A subnet of size 24 example CIDR 10 0 0 0 24 This provides 256 private IP addresses e An Internet gateway This connects the VPC to the Internet and to other AWS products e An instance with a private IP address in the subnet range example 10 0 0 6 which enables the instance to communicate with other instances in the VPC and an Elastic IP address example 198 51 100 2 which enables the instance to be reached from the Internet API Version 2015 04 15 18 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Routing for Scenario 1 A route table entry that enables instances in the subnet to communicate with other instances in the VPC and a route table entry that enables instances in the subnet to communicate directly over the
189. h an Internet Gateway The following sections describe how to manually create a public subnet to support Internet access Topics Creating a Subnet p 135 Attaching an Internet Gateway p 135 Creating a Custom Route Table p 135 Updating the Security Group Rules p 136 Adding Elastic IP Addresses p 136 Detaching an Internet Gateway from Your VPC p 137 Deleting an Internet Gateway p 137 API and Command Overview p 137 When you are finished setting up the subnet your VPC is configured as shown in the following diagram API Version 2015 04 15 134 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Creating a VPC with an Internet Gateway Custom Route Table 10 0 0 6 Destination Target EC2 Instance Public subnet 10 0 0 0 24 Router Availability Zone B e ao av av ao ar uo ae ao eo oo aw aw aw op a a 10 0 0 0 16 Region Creating a Subnet To add a subnet to your VPC 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane choose Subnets and then choose Create Subnet 3 Inthe Create Subnet dialog box select the VPC select the Availability Zone specify the CIDR range for the subnet and then choose Yes Create For more information about subnets see Your VPC and Subnets p 47 Attaching an Internet Gateway To create an Internet gateway and attach it to your VPC 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the
190. h into a nondefault subnet in a default VPC don t receive a public IP address or a DNS hostname You can change your subnet s default public IP addressing behavior For more information see Modifying Your Subnet s Public IP Addressing Behavior p 117 You can use a default VPC as you would use any other VPC you can add subnets modify the main route table add additional route tables associate additional security groups update the rules of the default security group and add VPN connections You can also create additional VPCs API Version 2015 04 15 58 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Default Subnets You can use a default subnet as you would use any other subnet you can add custom route tables and set network ACLs You can also specify a default subnet when you launch an EC2 instance Default Subnets The CIDR block for a default VPC is always a 16 netmask for example 172 31 0 0 16 This provides up to 65 536 private IP addresses The netmask for a default subnet is always 20 which provides up to 4 096 addresses per subnet a few of which are reserved for our use By default a default subnet is a public subnet because the main route table sends the subnets traffic that is destined for the Internet to the Internet gateway You can make a default subnet a private subnet by removing the route from the destination 0 0 0 0 0 to the Internet gateway However if you do this any EC2 instance running in that subnet can t ac
191. hat you ve used before and only EC2 VPC in regions that you haven t used In this case we create a default VPC in each region in which you haven t created any AWS resources Therefore unless you create a nondefault VPC and specify it when you launch an instance in a region that you haven t used before we launch the instance into your default VPC for that region However if you launch an instance in a region that you ve used before we launch the instance into EC2 Classic If you created your AWS account between 2013 03 18 and 2013 12 04 it may support only EC2 VPC or it may support both EC2 Classic and EC2 VPC in some of the regions that you ve used For information about detecting the platform support in each region for your AWS account see Detecting Your Supported Platforms and Whether You Have a Default VPC p 59 For information about when each region was API Version 2015 04 15 57 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Components enabled for default VPCs see Announcement Enabling regions for the default VPC feature set in the AWS forum for Amazon VPC If an AWS account supports only EC2 VPC any IAM accounts associated with this AWS account also support only EC2 VPC and use the same default VPC as the AWS account If your AWS account supports both EC2 Classic and EC2 VPC and you want the benefits of using EC2 VPC with the simplicity of launching instances into EC2 Classic you can either create a new AWS account or launch
192. he VPN only subnet you can test their connectivity by pinging them from your network For more information see Testing the End to End Connectivity of Your Instance p 180 If you did not assign a public IP address to your instance in step 5 you will not be able to connect to it Before you can access an instance in your public subnet you must assign it an Elastic IP address To allocate an Elastic IP address and assign it to an instance using the console eo LS Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click Elastic IPs Click the Allocate New Address button Click Yes Allocate Note If your account supports EC2 Classic first choose EC2 VPC from the Network platform list Select the Elastic IP address from the list and then click the Associate Address button In the Associate Address dialog box select the network interface or instance Select the address to associate the Elastic IP address with from the corresponding Private IP address list and then click Yes Associate API Version 2015 04 15 40 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Scenario 4 VPC with a Private Subnet Only and Hardware VPN Access In scenario 3 you need a DNS server that enables your public subnet to communicate with servers on the Internet and you need another DNS server that enables your VPN only subnet to communicate with servers in your network Your VPC automatically has a set of DHCP opti
193. he command line To disable source destination checking using the console 1 Open the Amazon EC2 console at https console amazonaws cn ec2 2 Inthe navigation pane click Instances 3 Select the NAT instance click Actions select Networking and then select Change Source Dest Check 4 For the NAT instance verify that this attribute is disabled Otherwise click Yes Disable To disable source destination checking using the command line You can use one of the following commands For more information about these command line interfaces see Accessing Amazon VPC p 6 modify instance attribute AWS CLI ec2 modify instance attribute Amazon EC2 CLI API Version 2015 04 15 142 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Updating the Main Route Table e Edit EC2InstanceAttribute AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Updating the Main Route Table Update the main route table as described in the following procedure By default the main route table enables the instances in your VPC to communicate with each other We ll add a route that sends all other subnet traffic to the NAT instance To update the main route table 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click Route Tables 3 Select the main route table for your VPC The details pane displays tabs for working with its routes associations and route propagation 4 On the Routes tab click Edit specify 0 0 0
194. how many virtual private gateways you can have per region as well as the limits for other components within your VPC see Amazon VPC Limits p 194 Customer Gateway A customer gateway is a physical device or software application on your side of the VPN connection When you create a VPN connection the VPN tunnel comes up when traffic is generated from your side of the VPN connection The virtual private gateway is not the initiator your customer gateway must initiate the tunnels If your VPN connection experiences a period of idle time usually 10 seconds depending on your configuration the tunnel may go down To prevent this you can use a network monitoring tool to generate keepalive pings for example by using IP SLA For more information about customer gateways see Your Customer Gateway in the Amazon VPC Network Administrator Guide For a list of customer gateways that we have tested with Amazon VPC see Amazon Virtual Private Cloud FAQs Configuration Examples The following diagrams illustrate single and multiple VPN connections The VPC has an attached virtual private gateway and your network includes a customer gateway which you must configure to enable the VPN connection You set up the routing so that any traffic from the VPC bound for your network is routed to the virtual private gateway When you create multiple VPN connections to a single VPC you can configure a second customer gateway to create a redundant connection t
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196. iations tab click Edit Select the Associate check box for the subnet to associate with the route table and then click Save fo MD Changing a Subnet s Route Table You can change which route table a subnet is associated with For example when you create a subnet it is implicitly associated with the main route table You might want to instead associate it with a custom route table you ve created To change a subnet s route table association Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click Subnets and then select the subnet In the Route Table tab click Edit Select the new route table to associate the subnet with from the Change to list and then click Save Poo ws Disassociating a Subnet from a Route Table You might want to disassociate a subnet from a route table For example you might have a subnet that is associated with a custom route table and you instead want it associated with the main route table By disassociating the subnet from the custom route table the subnet becomes implicitly associated with the main route table To disassociate a subnet from a route table Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click Route Tables and then select the route table In the Subnet Associations tab click Edit Deselect the Associate check box for the subnet and then click Save POS Replacing the Main Route Table The fo
197. ibute is true queries to the Amazon provided DNS server at the 169 254 169 253 IP address or the reserved IP address at the base of the VPC network range plus two will succeed For more information see Amazon DNS Server p 146 The Amazon DNS server cannot resolve private DNS hostnames if your VPC s IP address range falls outside of the private IP addresses ranges specified by RFC 1918 If you enable DNS hostnames and DNS support in a VPC that didn t previously support them an instance that you already launched into that VPC gets a public DNS hostname if it has a public IP address or an Elastic IP address To describe and update DNS support for a VPC using the console Open the Amazon VPC console In the navigation pane click Your VPCs Select the VPC from the list Review the information in the Summary tab In this example both settings are enabled OS DNS resolution yes DNS hostnames yes API Version 2015 04 15 151 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Using Private Hosted Zones VPC 5 To update these settings click the Actions list and select Edit DNS Resolution or Edit DNS Hostnames In the dialog box that opens select Yes or No and then click Save To describe DNS support for a VPC using the command line You can use one of the following commands For more information about these command line interfaces see Accessing Amazon VPC p 6 e describe vpc attribute AWS CLI ec2 describe
198. ic IP address is mapped to the primary private IP address through network address translation NAT You can control whether your instance receives a public IP address by doing the following e Modifying the public IP addressing attribute of your subnet For more information see Modifying Your Subnet s Public IP Addressing Behavior p 117 e Enabling or disabling the public IP addressing feature during instance launch which overrides the subnet s public IP addressing attribute For more information see Assigning a Public IP Address During Launch p 118 A public IP address is assigned to your instance from Amazon s pool of public IP addresses it s not associated with your account When a public IP address is disassociated from your instance it s released back into the pool and is no longer available for you to use You cannot manually associate or disassociate a public IP address Instead in certain cases we release the public IP address from your instance or assign it a new one For more information see Public IP Addresses in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances If you require a persistent public IP address that can be assigned to and removed from instances as you require use an Elastic IP address instead To do this you must allocate an Elastic IP address for use with the VPC and then associate that Elastic IP address with a private IP address specified by the network interface attached to the instance For more informat
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200. information to help you create innov ative applications with AWS The home page for AWS Support A central contact point for inquiries concerning AWS billing accounts and events Services that Support Amazon VPC To learn about using Amazon VPC with other AWS products see the following documentation Service AWS Data Pipeline Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Elastic Beanstalk Elastic Load Balancing Amazon ElastiCache Amazon EMR AWS OpsWorks Amazon RDS Amazon Redshift Amazon Route 53 Relevant Topic Launching Resources for Your Pipeline into a VPC Amazon EC2 and Amazon VPC Auto Scaling and Amazon VPC Using AWS Elastic Beanstalk with Amazon VPC Elastic Load Balancing and Amazon VPC Using ElastiCache with Amazon VPC Select a Subnet for the Cluster Running a Stack in a VPC Amazon RDS and Amazon VPC Managing Clusters in a VPC Working with Private Hosted Zones Accessing Amazon VPC Amazon VPC provides a web based user interface the Amazon VPC console If you ve signed up for an AWS account you can access the Amazon VPC console by signing into the AWS Management Console and selecting VPC from the console home page If you prefer to use a command line interface you have several options AWS Command Line Interface CLI Provides commands for a broad set of AWS products and is supported on Windows Mac and Linux UNIX To get started see AWS Command Line Interface User Guide For more information about the comma
201. ining back end servers that aren t publicly accessible Acommon example is a multi tier website with the web API Version 2015 04 15 22 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Configuration for Scenario 2 servers in a public subnet and the database servers in a private subnet You can set up security and routing so that the web servers can communicate with the database servers The instances in the public subnet can receive inbound traffic directly from the Internet whereas the instances in the private subnet can t The instances in the public subnet can send outbound traffic directly to the Internet whereas the instances in the private subnet can t Instead the instances in the private subnet can access the Internet by using a network address translation NAT instance that you launch into the public subnet Topics e Configuration for Scenario 2 p 23 Basic Components for Scenario 2 p 23 e Routing for Scenario 2 p 24 e Security for Scenario 2 p 25 Implementing Scenario 2 p 28 Configuration for Scenario 2 The following diagram shows the key components of the configuration for this scenario Destination Target j 10 0 0 0 16 local 198451 i NAT Instance Web Servers 10 0 0 8 Public subn TODO oyaa 198 51 100 4 EI Main Route Table Database Destination Target Servers 10 0 1 0 24 Availability Zone A or 10 0 0 0 16 Basic Components for Scenario 2 The following list describes the
202. io the Amazon VPC Network Administrator Guide describes what your network administrator needs to do to configure the Amazon VPC customer gateway on your side of the VPN connection Basic Components for Scenario 4 The following list describes the basic components presented in the configuration diagram for this scenario A virtual private cloud VPC of size 16 example CIDR 10 0 0 0 16 This provides 65 536 private IP addresses e AVPN only subnet of size 24 example CIDR 10 0 0 0 24 This provides 256 private IP addresses AVPN connection between your VPC and your network The VPN connection consists of a virtual private gateway located on the Amazon side of the VPN connection and a customer gateway located on your side of the VPN connection e Instances with private IP addresses in the subnet range examples 10 0 0 5 10 0 0 6 and 10 0 0 7 which enables the instances to communicate with each other and other instances in the VPC A route table entry that enables instances in the subnet to communicate with other instances in the VPC and a route table entry that enables instances in the subnet to communicate directly with your network For more information about subnets see Your VPC and Subnets p 47 and IP Addressing in Your VPC p 116 For more information about your VPN connection see Adding a Hardware Virtual Private Gateway to Your VPC p 172 For more information about configuring a customer gateway see the Ama
203. ion see Elastic IP Addresses p 119 Modifying Your Subnet s Public IP Addressing Behavior All subnets have an attribute that determines whether instances launched into that subnet are assigned a public IP address By default nondefault subnets have this attribute set to false and default subnets have this attribute set to true You can modify the subnet s public IP addressing attribute If you change this attribute you can still override this setting for a specific instance during launch For more information see Assigning a Public IP Address During Launch p 118 API Version 2015 04 15 117 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Assigning a Public IP Address During Launch Note If you use the Amazon EC2 launch wizard to launch a T2 instance type in your EC2 Classic account and you have no VPGs the launch wizard creates a nondefault VPC for you with a subnet in each Availability Zone The wizard modifies the subnets attributes to request a public IP address for your instance automatically For more information about T2 instance types see T2 Instances To modify your subnet s public IP addressing behavior T ea Open the Amazon VPC console In the navigation pane click Subnets Select your subnet click Subnet Actions and select Modify Auto Assign Public IP The Enable Auto assign Public IP check box if selected requests a public IP address for all instances launched into the selected subnet Select or clear
204. ion goes through various stages starting from when the request is initiated At each stage there may be actions that you can take and at the end of its lifecycle the VPC peering connection remains visible in the VPC console and API or command line output for a period of time no longer visible Initiating request A request for a VPC peering connection has been initiated At this stage the peering connection may fail or may go to pending acceptance Failed The request for the VPC peering connection has failed During this state it cannot be accepted or rejected The failed VPC peering connection remains visible to the requester for 2 hours Pending acceptance The VPC peering connection request is awaiting acceptance from the owner of the peer VPC During this state the owner of the requester VPC can delete the request and the owner of the peer VPC can accept or reject the request If no action is taken on the request it will expire after 7 days Expired The VPC peering connection request has expired and no action can be taken on it by either VPC owner The expired VPC peering connection remains visible to both VPC owners for 2 days Rejected The owner of the peer VPC has rejected a pending acceptance VPC peering connection request During this state the request cannot be accepted The rejected VPC peering connection remains visible to the owner of the requester VPC for 2 days and visible to the owner of the peer VPC for 2 hours I
205. ire it For more information see Terminate Your Instance in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances Options Sets This topic describes DHCP options sets and how to specify the DHCP options for your VPC Topics Overview of DHCP Options Sets p 145 Amazon DNS Server p 146 Changing DHCP Options p 147 Working with DHCP Options Sets p 147 API and Command Overview p 149 Overview of DHCP Options Sets The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP provides a standard for passing configuration information to hosts on a TCP IP network The options field of a DHCP message contains the configuration parameters Some of those parameters are the domain name domain name server and the netbios node type API Version 2015 04 15 145 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Amazon DNS Server DHCP options sets are associated with your AWS account so that you can use them across all of your virtual private clouds VPC The Amazon EC2 instances you launch into a nondefault VPC are private by default they re not assigned a public IP address unless you specifically assign one during launch or you modify the subnet s public IP address attribute By default all instances in a nondefault VPC receive an unresolvable host name that AWS assigns for example ip 10 0 0 202 You can assign your own domain name to your instances and use up to four of your own DNS servers To do that you must specify a special set of DHCP o
206. is occurs when the number of flow log records for a network interface is higher than the maximum number of records that can be published within a specific timeframe e Access error The IAM role for your flow log does not have sufficient permissions to publish flow log records to the CloudWatch log group For more information see IAM Roles for Flow Logs p 109 Unknown error An internal error has occurred in the flow logs service Flow Log is Active But No Flow Log Records or Log Group You ve created a flow log and the Amazon VPC or Amazon EC2 console displays the flow log as Act ive However you cannot see any log streams in CloudWatch Logs or your CloudWatch Logs log group has not been created The cause may be one of the following The flow log is still in the process of being created In some cases it can take tens of minutes after you ve created the flow log for the log group to be created and for data to be displayed There has been no traffic recorded for your network interfaces yet The log group in CloudWatch Logs is only created when traffic is recorded API and CLI Overview You can perform the tasks described on this page using the command line or API For more information about the command line interfaces and a list of available API actions see Accessing Amazon VPC p 6 Create a flow log create flow logs AWS CLI e New EC2FlowLogs AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell e CreateFlowLogs Amazon EC2 Query AP
207. istrator configures the customer gateway Because the WebServerSG and DBServerSG security groups reference each other create all the security groups required for this scenario before you add rules to them To create the WebServerSG and DBServerSG security groups PONS a Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click Security Groups Click the Create Security Group button In the Create Security Group dialog box specify WebServerSG as the name of the security group and provide a description Select the ID of your VPC from the VPC list and then click Yes Create Click the Create Security Group button again In the Create Security Group dialog box specify DBServerSG as the name of the security group and provide a description Select the ID of your VPC from the VPC list and then click Yes Create To add the recommended rules to the WebServerSG security group 1 Select the WebServerSG security group that you created The details pane displays the details for the security group plus tabs for working with its inbound and outbound rules On the Inbound Rules tab click Edit and add rules for inbound traffic as follows a Select HTTP from the Type list and enter 0 0 0 0 0 in the Source field b Click Add another rule then select HTTPS from the Type list and enter 0 0 0 0 0 in the Source field c Click Add another rule then select SSH from the Type list Enter your netwo
208. ithin a specific VPC The policy does this by applying a condition key ec2 Vpc to the security group resource for the Authorize and Revoke actions The second statement grants users permission to describe all security groups This is necessary in order for users to be able to modify security group rules using the CLI Version 2012 10 17 Statement Effect Allow Action ec2 AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress ec2 AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress ec2 RevokeSecurityGroupiIngress ec2 RevokeSecurityGroupEgress Resource arn aws ec2 region account security group WCONGLR LON gt StringEquals ec2 Vpc arn aws ec2 region account vpc vpc la2b3c4d Es Effect Allow Action ec2 DescribeSecurityGroups Resource x API Version 2015 04 15 93 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Example Policies for a CLI or SDK Example 7 Creating and managing VPC peering connections The following are examples of policies you can use to manage the creation and modification of VPC peering connections a Create a VPC peering connection The following policy allows users to create VPC peering connection requests using only VPCs that are tagged with Purpose Peering The first statement applies a condition key ec2 ResourceTag to the VPC resource Note that the VPC resource for the CcreateVpcPeeringConnection action is always the requester VPC
209. itional API actions for its features so these policies may not work as expected This section demonstrates policies that enable users to work with specific parts of the VPC console e 1 Using the VPC wizard p 99 2 Managing a VPC p 103 3 Managing security groups p 105 API Version 2015 04 15 97 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Example Policies for the Console 4 Creating a VPC peering connection p 106 API Version 2015 04 15 98 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Example Policies for the Console Example 1 Using the VPC wizard You can use the VPC wizard in the Amazon VPC console to create and set up and configure a VPC for you so that it s ready for you to use The wizard provides different configuration options depending on your requirements For more information about using the VPC wizard to create a VPC see VPC Wizard Scenarios for Amazon VPC p 17 To enable users to use the VPC wizard you must grant them permission to create and modify the resources that form part of the selected configuration The following example policies show the actions that are required for each of the wizard configuration options Note If the VPC wizard fails at any point it attempts to detach and delete the resources that it s created If you do not grant users permissions to use these actions then those resources remain in your account Option 1 VPC with a single public subnet The fi
210. its see Amazon VPC Limits p 194 VPC peering does not support transitive peering relationships in a VPC peering connection your VPC will not have access to any other VPCs that the peer VPC may be peered with This includes VPC peering connections that are established entirely within your own AWS account For more information and examples of peering relationships that are supported see the Amazon VPC Peering Guide You cannot have more than one VPC peering connection between the same two VPCs at the same time The Maximum Transmission Unit MTU across a VPC peering connection is 1500 bytes A placement group can span peered VPCs however you will not get full bisection bandwidth between instances in peered VPCs For more information about placement groups see Placement Groups in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances Unicast reverse path forwarding in VPC peering connections is not supported For more information see Routing for Response Traffic in the Amazon VPC Peering Guide You cannot reference a security group from the peer VPC as a source or destination for ingress or egress rules in your security group Instead reference CIDR blocks of the peer VPC as the source or destination of your security group s ingress or egress rules Private DNS values cannot be resolved between instances in peered VPCs Working with VPC Peering Connections Topics e Creating a VPC Peering Connection p 155 Accepting a VPC Peering Conne
211. ity Groups p 35 Recommended Security Groups Your VPC comes with a default security group whose initial settings deny all inbound traffic allow all outbound traffic and allow all traffic between instances assigned to the security group If you don t specify a security group when you launch an instance the instance is automatically assigned to this default security group For this scenario we recommend that you create the following security groups instead of modifying the default security group WebServerSG For the web servers in the public subnet DBServerSG For the database servers in the VPN only subnet The instances assigned to a security group can be in different subnets However in this scenario each security group corresponds to the type of role an instance plays and each role requires the instance to be in a particular subnet Therefore in this scenario all instances assigned to a security group are in the same subnet The WebServerSG security group is the security group that you ll specify when you launch your web servers into your public subnet The following table describes the recommended rules for this security group which allow the web servers to receive Internet traffic as well as SSH and RDP traffic from your network The web servers can also initiate read and write requests to the database server instances in the VPN only subnet Note The group includes both SSH and RDP access and both Microsoft SQL Se
212. k end servers that don t need to accept incoming traffic from the Internet but can send and receive traffic from your network A custom route table associated with the public subnet This route table contains an entry that enables instances in the subnet to communicate with other instances in the VPC and an entry that enables instances in the subnet to communicate directly with the Internet The main route table associated with the VPN only subnet The route table contains an entry that enables instances in the subnet to communicate with other instances in the VPC and an entry that enables instances in the subnet to communicate directly with your network For more information about subnets see Your VPC and Subnets p 47 and IP Addressing in Your VPC p 116 For more information about Internet gateways see Internet Gateways p 133 For more information about your VPN connection see Adding a Hardware Virtual Private Gateway to Your VPC p 172 For more information about configuring a customer gateway see the Amazon VPC Network Administrator Guide Routing for Scenario 3 Your VPC has an implied router shown in the configuration diagram for this scenario For this scenario the VPC wizard updates the main route table used with the VPN only subnet and creates a custom route table and associates it with the public subnet Otherwise you d need to create and associate the route tables yourself The instances in the VPN only subnet can
213. k interface that is assigned a private IP address from the IP address range of your VPC You cannot detach a primary network interface from an instance You can create and attach an additional elastic network interface to any instance in your VPC The number of ENIs you can attach varies by instance type For more information see Private IP Addresses Per ENI Per Instance Type in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances Attaching multiple ENIs to an instance is useful when you want to e Create a management network e Use network and security appliances in your VPC e Create dual homed instances with workloads roles on distinct subnets Create a low budget high availability solution For more information about ENls and step by step instructions for working with them using the Amazon EC2 console see Elastic Network Interfaces in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances API Version 2015 04 15 122 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Route Tables Route Tables A route table contains a set of rules called routes that are used to determine where network traffic is directed Each subnet in your VPC must be associated with a route table the table controls the routing for the subnet A subnet can only be associated with one route table at a time but you can associate multiple subnets with the same route table Topics Route Table Basics p 123 Main Route Tables p 123 Custom Route Tables p 124 Route
214. k is 172 31 0 0 16 To enable traffic between the VPCs and allow access to the entire CIDR block of either VPC VPC A s route table is configured as follows Destination Target 10 0 0 0 16 Local 172 31 0 0 16 pex 1a2b1a2b API Version 2015 04 15 126 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Route Tables for ClassicLink VPC B s route table is configured as follows Destination Target 172 31 0 0 16 Local 10 0 0 0 16 pex 1a2b1a2b For more information about VPC peering connections see the following topics e Working with VPC peering connections in the VPC console VPC Peering p 152 e Adding routes for VPC peering connections Updating Route Tables for Your VPC Peering Connection p 157 Supported VPC peering connection scenarios and routing configurations Amazon VPC Peering Guide Route Tables for ClassicLink ClassicLink is a feature that enables you to link an EC2 Classic instance to a VPC allowing communication between the EC2 Classic instance and instances in the VPC using private IP addresses For more information about ClassicLink see ClassicLink p 193 When you enable a VPC for ClassicLink a route is added to all of the VPC s route tables with a destination of 10 0 0 0 8 and a target of local This allows communication between instances in the VPC and any EC2 Classic instances that are then linked to the VPC If you add another route table to a ClassicLink enabled VPC it automatically receives a route with
215. l Private Cloud User Guide API and Command Overview Changing a Subnet s Network ACL You can change which network ACL a subnet is associated with For example when you create a subnet it is initially associated with the default network ACL You might want to instead associate it with a custom network ACL that you ve created After changing a subnet s network ACL you don t have to terminate and relaunch the instances in the subnet the changes take effect after a short period To change a subnet s network ACL association Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click Subnets and then select the subnet Click the Network ACL tab and the click Edit Select the network ACL to associate the subnet with from the Network ACL list and then click Save oO NS subnet e9a0a09d 10 0 0 0 28 Summary Route Table Network ACL Tags _ save Network ACL acl ac13f0c9 default gt acl ac13f0c9 default Inbound ac 463bc923 Rule Type Protocol Port Range ICMP Type Source Allow Deny 100 ALL Traffic ALL ALL 0 0 0 0 0 ALLOW ALL Traffic ALL ALL 0 0 0 0 0 DENY Outbound Pda i aaa PMaaiaaal Nad Nacsa INN Taa Cn Atlase le Deleting a Network ACL You can delete a network ACL only if there are no subnets associated with it You can t delete the default network ACL To delete a network ACL Open the Amazon VPC console Click Network ACLs in the navigation pan
216. lation NAT however NAT traversal NAT T is not supported Gather the list of internal IP ranges in CIDR notation that should be advertised across the VPN connection to the virtual private gateway if you are using a statically routed VPN connection For more information see VPN Routing Options p 174 Next use the VPC wizard as described in the following procedure to create your VPC and a VPN connection To implement scenario 4 using the VPC wizard 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click VPC Dashboard Locate the Your Virtual Private Cloud area of the dashboard and click Get started creating a VPC if you have no VPC resources or click Start VPC Wizard Select the fourth option VPC with a Private Subnet Only and Hardware VPN Access and then click Select On the first page of the wizard confirm the details for your VPC and private subnet and then click Next On the Configure your VPN page do the following and then click Create VPC In Customer Gateway IP specify the public IP address of your VPN router Optionally specify a name for your customer gateway and VPN connection In Routing Type select one of the routing options as follows If your VPN router supports Border Gateway Protocol BGP select Dynamic requires BGP If your VPN router does not support BGP click Static In IP Prefix add each IP prefix for your network API Version
217. lications before you make routing or other decisions based on the current IP address range for a service You can have multiple endpoint routes to different services in a route table and you can have multiple endpoint routes to the same service in different route tables but you cannot have multiple endpoints to the same service in a single route table For example if you have two endpoints to Amazon S3 in your VPC you cannot use the same route table for both endpoints You cannot explicitly add modify or delete an endpoint route in your route table by using the route table APIs or by using the Route Tables page in the VPC console You can only add an endpoint route by associating a route table with an endpoint The endpoint route is automatically deleted when you remove the route table association from the endpoint by modifying the endpoint or when you delete your endpoint To change the route tables that are associated with your endpoint you can modify the endpoint For more information see Modifying an Endpoint p 169 Example An Endpoint Route in a Route Table In this scenario you have an existing route in your route table for all Internet traffic 0 0 0 0 0 that points to an Internet gateway Any traffic from the subnet that s destined for another AWS service uses the Internet gateway Destination Target 10 0 0 0 16 Local 0 0 0 0 0 igw 1a2b3c4d You create an endpoint to Amazon S3 and associate your route table with the
218. lick Peering Connections API Version 2015 04 15 158 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide API and CLI Overview 3 All your VPC peering connections are listed Use the filter lists and search field to narrow your results For example to view VPC peering connection requests that you ve sent that are waiting for approval select Outstanding requests I ve sent from the filter list Deleting a VPC Peering Connection Either owner of a VPC in a peering connection can delete the VPC peering connection at any time You can also delete a VPC peering connection that you ve requested that is still in the pending acceptanc state Note Deleting a VPC in the VPC console that s part of an active VPC peering connection deletes the VPC peering connection If you have requested a VPC peering connection with a VPC in another account and you delete your VPC before the other party has accepted the request the VPC peering connection is deleted You cannot delete a VPC for which you have a pending acceptance request from a VPC in another account You must first reject the VPC peering connection request To delete a VPC peering connection Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click Peering Connections Select the VPC peering connection and click Delete In the confirmation dialog box click Yes Delete API and CLI Overview You can perform the tasks described on this page using the c
219. licy or type your own policy in the policy window 5 If applicable complete the rest of the steps in the wizard and then click Create VPC Modifying Your Security Group If your VPC security group restricts outbound traffic you must add a rule to allow traffic destined for the AWS service to leave your instance To add an outbound rule for an endpoint Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane choose Security Groups Select your VPC security group choose the Outbound Rules tab and then choose Edit Select the type of traffic from the Type list and enter the port range if required For example if you use your instance to retrieve objects from Amazon S3 choose HTTPS from the Type list 5 The Destination list displays the prefix list IDs and names for the available AWS services Choose the prefix list ID for the endpoint service or type it in Note For Amazon S3 the prefix list name is com amazonaws lt region gt s3 for example com amazonaws us east 1 s3 Po NaS 6 Choose Save For more information about security groups see Security Groups for Your VPC p 64 Modifying an Endpoint You can modify your endpoint by changing or removing its policy and adding or removing the route tables that are used by the endpoint To change the policy associated with an endpoint Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane choo
220. ll VPCs have by default and a custom route table that was created by the wizard The custom route table is associated with your subnet which means that the routes in that table determine how the traffic for the subnet flows If you add a new subnet to your VPC it uses the main route table by default API Version 2015 04 15 10 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Step 2 Create a Security Group To view information about your VPC 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc 2 Inthe navigation pane choose Your VPCs Take note of the name and the ID of the VPC that you created look in the Name and VPC ID columns You will use this information to identify the components that are associated with your VPC 3 Inthe navigation pane choose Subnets The console displays the subnet that was created when you created your VPC You can identify the subnet by its name in Name column or you can use the VPC information that you obtained in the previous step and look in the VPC column 4 Inthe navigation pane choose Internet Gateways You can find the Internet gateway that s attached to your VPC by looking at the VPC column which displays the ID and the name if applicable of the VPC 5 Inthe navigation pane choose Route Tables There are two route tables associated with the VPC Select the custom route table the Main column displays No and then choose the Routes tab to display the route information in the de
221. llowing procedure describes how to change which route table is the main route table in your VPC API Version 2015 04 15 130 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide API and Command Overview To replace the main route table 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc 2 Click Route Tables in the navigation pane 3 Locate the route table that you want to be the new main route table right click the table and then select Set as Main Table 4 Inthe Set Main Route Table dialog box click Yes Set The following procedure describes how to remove an explicit association between a subnet and the main route table The result is an implicit association between the subnet and the main route table The process is the same as disassociating any subnet from any route table To remove an explicit association with the main route table Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click Route Tables and then select the route table In the Subnet Associations tab click Edit Deselect the Associate check box for the subnet and then click Save PO NS Deleting a Route Table You can delete a route table only if there are no subnets associated with it You can t delete the main route table To delete a route table Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click Route Tables Select the route table and then click the
222. low logs can help you with a number of tasks for example to troubleshoot why specific traffic is not reaching an instance which in turn can help you diagnose overly restrictive security group rules You can also use flow logs as a security tool to monitor the traffic that is reaching your instance There is no additional charge for using flow logs however standard CloudWatch Logs charges apply For more information see Amazon CloudWatch Pricing Topics Flow Logs Basics p 107 e Flow Log Limitations p 107 Flow Log Records p 108 IAM Roles for Flow Logs p 109 e Working With Flow Logs p 110 API Version 2015 04 15 106 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Flow Logs Basics Troubleshooting p 112 API and CLI Overview p 113 e Examples Flow Log Records p 114 Example Creating a CloudWatch Metric Filter and Alarm for a Flow Log p 115 Flow Logs Basics You can create a flow log for a VPC a subnet or a network interface If you create a flow log for a subnet or VPC each network interface in the VPC or subnet is monitored Flow log data is published to a log group in CloudWatch Logs and each network interface has a unique log stream Log streams contain flow log records which are log events consisting of fields that describe the traffic for that network interface For more information see Flow Log Records p 108 To create a flow log you specify the resource for which you want to
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224. mazonaws cn vpc 2 Inthe navigation pane click Security Groups 3 Select the security group to update The details pane displays the details for the security group plus tabs for working with its inbound rules and outbound rules 4 Click Edit and then click the Remove button for rule you want to delete Click Save when you re done Changing an Instance s Security Groups You can change the security groups that an instance in a VPC is assigned to after the instance is launched When you make this change the instance can be either running or stopped Note This procedure changes the security groups that are associated with the primary network interface ethO of the instance To change the security groups for other network interfaces see Changing the Security Group of a Network Interface To change an instance s security groups Open the Amazon EC2 console at hiips console amazonaws cn ec2 Click Instances in the navigation pane Right click the instance select Networking and then click Change Security Groups In the Change Security Groups dialog box select one or more security groups from the list and then click Assign Security Groups Po ys Deleting a Security Group You can delete a security group only if there are no instances assigned to it either running or stopped You can assign the instances to another security group before you delete the security group see Changing an Instance s Security Groups p 68 You
225. more information about how to select the appropriate ephemeral port range see Ephemeral Ports p 74 API Version 2015 04 15 72 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Example Custom Network ACL 150 0 0 0 0 0 UDP 32768 ALLOW Allows inbound return UDP 61000 traffic For more information about how to select the appropriate ephemeral port range see Ephemeral Ports p 74 0 0 0 0 0 all all DENY Denies all inbound traffic not already handled by a preced ing rule not modifiable Outbound Rule Dest IP Protocol Port Allow Deny Comments 100 0 0 0 0 0 TCP 80 ALLOW Allows outbound HTTP traffic from the subnet to the Inter net 110 0 0 0 0 0 TCP 443 ALLOW Allows outbound HTTPS traffic from the subnet to the Internet 120 0 0 0 0 0 TCP 49152 ALLOW Allows outbound responses 65535 to clients on the Internet for example serving web pages to people visiting the web servers in the subnet For more information about how to select the appropriate ephemeral port range see Ephemeral Ports p 74 0 0 0 0 0 all all DENY Denies all outbound traffic not already handled by a preceding rule not modifi able As a packet comes to the subnet we evaluate it against the ingress rules of the ACL the subnet is associated with starting at the top of the list of rules and moving to the bottom Let s say the packet is destined for the SSL port 443 The packet doesn t match the first rule evaluated rule 100
226. mportant note at the network beginning of this topic about specifying the correct ephem eral ports 0 0 0 0 0 all all DENY Denies all outbound traffic not already handled by a preceding rule not modifi able Controlling Access to Amazon VPC Resources Your security credentials identify you to services in AWS and grant you unlimited use of your AWS resources such as your Amazon VPC resources You can use AWS Identity and Access Management IAM to allow other users services and applications to use your Amazon VPC resources without sharing your security credentials You can choose to allow full use or limited use of your resources by granting users permission to use specific Amazon EC2 API actions Some API actions support resource level permissions which allow you to control the specific resources that users can create or modify Important Currently not all Amazon EC2 API actions support resource level permissions If an Amazon EC2 API action does not support resource level permissions you can grant users permission to use the action but you have to specify a for the resource element of your policy statement For an example of how to do this see the following example policy 1 Managing a VPC p 89 We ll add support for additional API actions and ARNs for additional Amazon EC2 resources later For information about which ARNs you can use with which Amazon EC2 API actions as well as supported condition keys for each ARN see Sup
227. my approval from the filter list 4 Select the VPC peering connection and click Accept request 5 Inthe confirmation dialog box click Yes Accept A second confirmation dialog displays click Modify my route tables now to go directly to the route tables page or click Close to do this later Now that your VPC peering connection is active you must add an entry to your VPC s route table to enable traffic to be directed to the peer VPC For more information see Updating Route Tables for Your VPC Peering Connection p 157 Rejecting a VPC Peering Connection You can reject any VPC peering connection request that you ve received that s in the pending acceptance State You should only accept VPC peering connections from AWS accounts that you know and trust you can reject any unwanted requests To reject a VPC peering connection 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc 2 Inthe navigation pane click Peering Connections 3 To view all VPC peering connections that are pending your acceptance select Requests pending my approval from the filter list 4 Select the VPC peering connection and click Reject request 5 Inthe confirmation dialog box click Yes Reject Updating Route Tables for Your VPC Peering Connection To send traffic between instances in peered VPCs using private IP addresses you must add a route to a route table that s associated with your VPC The route points to the CIDR block or por
228. n click Yes Allocate e Select the Elastic IP address from the list and then click the Associate Address button 7 In the Associate Address dialog box select the network interface for the NAT instance Select the address to associate the EIP with from the Private IP address list and then click Yes Associate Update the main route table to send traffic to the NAT instance For more information see Updating the Main Route Table p 143 API Version 2015 04 15 140 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Creating the NATSG Security Group Launching a NAT Instance Using the Command Line To launch a NAT instance into your subnet use one of the following commands For more information about these command line interfaces see Accessing Amazon VPC p 6 e run instances AWS CLI e ec2 run instances Amazon EC2 CLI e New EC2Instance AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell To get the ID of an AMI that s configured to run as a NAT instance use a command to describe images and use filters to return results only for AMIs that are owned by Amazon and that have the amzn ami vpc nat String in their names The following example uses the AWS CLI PROMPT gt aws ec2 describe images filter Name owner alias Values amazon filter Name name Values amzn ami vpc nat Creating the NATSG Security Group Define the NATSG security group as described in the following table to enable your NAT instance to receive
229. n create up to 100 security groups per VPC gion You can add up to 100 rules to a security group You can add up to 50 rules to a security group You can add rules for inbound traffic only You can add rules for inbound and outbound traffic You can assign up to 500 security groups to an in You can assign up to 5 security groups to a network stance interface You can reference security groups from other AWS You can reference security groups for your VPC accounts only After you launch an instance you can t change the You can change the security groups assigned to security groups assigned to it an instance after it s launched API Version 2015 04 15 66 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Working with Security Groups EC2 Classic EC2 VPC When you add a rule to a security group you don t When you add a rule to a security group you must have to specify a protocol and only TCP UDP or specify a protocol and it can be any protocol with ICMP are available a standard protocol number or all protocols see Protocol Numbers When you add a rule to a security group you must When you add a rule to a security group you can specify port numbers for TCP or UDP specify port numbers only if the rule is for TCP or UDP and you can specify all port numbers Working with Security Groups This section shows you how to work with security groups using the AWS Management Console Topics e Modifying the Default
230. n in a virtual private cloud VPC on hardware that s dedicated to a single customer Your Dedicated Instances are physically isolated at the host hardware level from your instances that aren t Dedicated Instances and from instances that belong to other AWS accounts This topic discusses the basics of Dedicated Instances and shows you how to implement them Topics Dedicated Instance Basics p 188 e Working with Dedicated Instances p 189 API and Command Overview p 191 Dedicated Instance Basics Each instance that you launch into a VPC has a tenancy attribute You can t change the tenancy of an instance after you launch it This attribute has the following values Value Description default Your instance runs on shared hardware dedicated Your instance runs on single tenant hardware Each VPC has a related instance tenancy attribute You can t change the instance tenancy of a VPC after you create it This attribute has the following values Value Description default An instance launched into the VPC is a Dedicated Instance if the tenancy attribute for the instance is dedicated dedicated Allinstances launched into the VPC are Dedicated Instances regard less of the value of the tenancy attribute for the instance If you are planning to use Dedicated Instances you can implement them using either method API Version 2015 04 15 188 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Dedicated Instances Limitations e Create
231. n instance the instance automatically belongs to the default security group for the VPC For more information about security groups see Security Groups for Your VPC p 64 You can secure your VPC instances using only security groups however you can add network ACLs as a second layer of defense For more information about network ACLs see Network ACLs p 70 You can use AWS Identity and Access Management to control who in your organization has permission to create and manage security groups and network ACLs For example you can give only your network administrators that permission but not personnel who only need to launch instances For more information see Controlling Access to Amazon VPC Resources p 87 Amazon security groups and network ACLs don t filter traffic to or from link local addresses 169 254 0 0 16 or AWS reserved addresses the first four IP addresses and the last one in each subnet These addresses support the services Domain Name Services DNS Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP Amazon EC2 instance metadata Key Management Server KMS license management for Windows instances and routing in the subnet You can implement additional firewall solutions in your instances to block network communication with link local addresses Comparison of Security Groups and Network ACLs The following table summarizes the basic differences between security groups and network ACLs API Version 2015 04 15 62 Amazon
232. n names that you define in a private hosted zone in Amazon Route 53 For more inform ation see Using Private Hosted Zones p 152 You can modify the public IP addressing attribute of your subnet to indicate whether instances launched into that subnet should receive a public IP address For more information see Modifying Your Subnet s Public IP Addressing Behavi or p 117 Release Date 10 June 2015 11 May 2015 7 January 2015 5 Novem ber 2014 21 June 2014 API Version 2015 04 15 197 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Feature API Ver sion VPC peering 2014 02 01 New EC2 launch wizard 2013 10 01 Assigning a public IP 2013 07 address 15 Enabling DNS host 2013 02 names and disabling 01 DNS resolution VPN connections using 2012 08 static routing configura 15 tion Automatic route 2012 08 propagation 15 AWS VPN CloudHub and redundant VPN connections VPC Everywhere 2011 07 15 Description You can create a VPC peering connection between two VPCs which allows instances in either VPC to communicate with each other using private IP ad dresses as if they are within the same VPC For more information see VPC Peering p 152 Added information about the redesigned EC2 launch wizard For more information see Step 3 Launch an Instance into Your VPC p 13 Added information about a new public IP address ing feature for instances launched in a VPC Fo
233. nable route propagation so that routes are automatically propagated to your route table e ec2 CreateVpnConnection To create a VPN connection ec2 DescribeVpnConnections ec2 DescribeVpnGateways and c2 DescribeCustomerGateways To display the options on the second configuration page of the wizard ec2 DescribeVpcs and ec2 DescribeRouteTables To gather information about the routes that must be added to the main route table API Version 2015 04 15 101 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Example Policies for the Console None of the API actions in this policy support resource level permissions so you cannot control which specific resources users can use Version 2012 10 17 Statement Effect Allow Action ec2 CreateVpc ec2 CreateSubnet ec2 DescribeAvailabilityZones ec2 CreateRouteTable ec2 CreateRoute ec2 CreateInternetGateway ec2 AttachInternetGateway ec2 AssociateRouteTable ec2 ModifyVpcAt tribute ec2 CreateCustomerGateway ec2 CreateVpnGateway ec2 AttachVpnGate way r ec2 EnableVgwRoutePropagation ec2 CreateVpnConnection ec2 De scribeVpnGateways ec2 DescribeCustomerGateways ec2 DescribeVpnConnections ec2 De scribeRouteTables ec2 DescribeNetworkAcls ec2 DescribeInternetGateways ec2 De scribeVpcs r Resource Option 4 VPC with a private subnet only and hard
234. navigation pane choose Internet Gateways and then choose Create Internet Gateway 3 Inthe Create Internet Gateway dialog box you can optionally name your Internet gateway and then choose Yes Create 4 Select the Internet gateway that you just created and then choose Attach to VPC 5 Inthe Attach to VPC dialog box select your VPC from the list and then choose Yes Attach Creating a Custom Route Table When you create a subnet we automatically associate it with the main route table for the VPC By default the main route table doesn t contain a route to an Internet gateway The following procedure creates a API Version 2015 04 15 135 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Creating a VPC with an Internet Gateway custom route table with a route that sends traffic destined outside the VPC to the Internet gateway and then associates it with your subnet To create a custom route table 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane choose Route Tables and then choose Create Route Table 3 Inthe Create Route Table dialog box optionally name your route table then select your VPC and then choose Yes Create 4 Select the custom route table that you just created The details pane displays tabs for working with its routes associations and route propagation 5 On the Routes tab choose Edit specify 0 0 0 0 0 in the Destination box select the Internet gateway ID in the
235. nces in subnets associated with the specified route tables automatically use the endpoint to access the service subnets that are not associated with the specified route tables do not use the endpoint to access the service This enables you to keep resources in other subnets separate from your endpoint API Version 2015 04 15 161 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Endpoint Basics We use the most specific route that matches the traffic to determine how to route the traffic longest prefix match If you have an existing route in your route table for all Internet traffic 0 0 0 0 0 that points to an Internet gateway the endpoint route takes precedence for all traffic destined for the service because the IP address range for the service is more specific than 0 0 0 0 0 All other Internet traffic goes to your Internet gateway including traffic that s destined for the service in other regions However if you have existing more specific routes to IP address ranges that point to an Internet gateway or a NAT instance those routes take precedence If you have existing routes destined for an IP address range that is identical to the IP address range used by the service then your routes take precedence To view the current IP address range for a service you can use the describe prefix lists command or the ec2 describe prefix lists command Note The range of public IP addresses for a service may change from time to time Consider the imp
236. nd then click Next Add Storage 8 Continue as prompted by the wizard When you ve finished reviewing your options on the Review Instance Launch page click Launch to choose a key pair and launch the Dedicated Instance on RAN Displaying Tenancy Information To display tenancy information for your VPC 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc 2 Inthe navigation pane click Your VPCs 3 Check the instance tenancy of your VPC in the Tenancy column API Version 2015 04 15 190 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide API and Command Overview 4 Ifthe Tenancy column is not displayed click the Show Hide button select Tenancy from the Show Hide Columns dialog box and then click Close To display tenancy information for your instance Open the Amazon EC2 console at hitps console amazonaws cn ec2 In the navigation pane click Instances Check the tenancy of your instance in the Tenancy column If the Tenancy column is not displayed do one of the following Po NS e Click the Show Hide button select Tenancy from the Show Hide Columns dialog box and then click Close Select the instance The Description tab in the details pane displays information about the instance including its tenancy API and Command Overview You can perform the tasks described on this page using the command line or an API For more information about the command line interfaces and a list of available APIs see
237. ndowstart windowend action REJECT flowlogstatus In the Select Log Data to Test list select the log stream for your network interface You can optionally choose Test Pattern to view the lines of log data that match the filter pattern When you re ready choose Assign Metric Provide a metric namespace a metric name and ensure that the metric value is set to 1 When you re done choose Create Filter In the navigation pane choose Alarms and then choose Create Alarm In the Custom Metrics section choose the namespace for the metric filter that you created Note It can take a few minutes for a new metric to display in the console Select the metric name that you created and then choose Next Enter a name and description for the alarm In the is fields choose gt and enter 10 In the for field leave the default 1 for the consecutive periods Choose 1 Hour from the Period list and Sum from the Statistic list The Sum statistic ensures that you are capturing the total number of data points for the specified time period In the Actions section you can choose to send a notification to an existing list or you can create a new list and enter the email addresses that should receive a notification when the alarm is triggered When you are done choose Create Alarm API Version 2015 04 15 115 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide IP Addressing Networking in Your VPC You can use the following componen
238. nds for Amazon VPC see ec2 Amazon EC2 Command Line Interface CLI Tools Provides commands for Amazon EC2 Amazon EBS and Amazon VPC and is supported on Windows Mac and Linux UNIX For more information about the commands see Commands CLI Tools in the Amazon EC2 Command Line Reference API Version 2015 04 15 6 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Pricing for Amazon VPC AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Provides commands for a broad set of AWS products for those who script in the PowerShell environment To get started see AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell User Guide Amazon VPC provides a Query API These requests are HTTP or HTTPS requests that use the HTTP verbs GET or POST and a Query parameter named Act ion For more information about the API actions for Amazon VPC see Actions in the Amazon EC2 API Reference If you prefer to build applications using language specific APIs instead of submitting a request over HTTP or HTTPS AWS provides libraries sample code tutorials and other resources for software developers These libraries provide basic functions that automatically take care of tasks such as cryptographically signing your requests retrying requests and handling error responses so that it is easier for you to get started For more information about downloading the AWS SDKs see AWS SDKs and Tools Pricing for Amazon VPC There s no additional charge for using Amazon VPC You pay the standard rates for the ins
239. ne click Route Tables Click Create Route Table In the Create Route Table dialog box you can optionally name your route table in the Name tag field Doing so creates a tag with a key of Name and a value that you specify Select your VPC from the VPC list and then click Yes Create Pon Adding and Removing Routes from a Route Table You can add delete and modify routes in your route tables You can only modify routes that you ve added To modify or add a route to a route table Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click Route Tables and then select the route table In the Routes tab click Edit To modify an existing route replace the destination CIDR block or a single IP address in the Destination field and then select a target from the Target list Click Add another route to add more routes and then click Save when you re done 2 ONS To delete a route from a route table Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click Route Tables and then select the route table In the Routes tab click Edit and then click the Remove button for the route you want to delete Click Save when you re done Pe NS Enabling and Disabling Route Propagation Route propagation allows a virtual private gateway to automatically propagate routes to the route tables so that you don t need to manually enter VPN routes to your route tables You can en
240. nections action To use the Create VPC Peering Connection dialog box users must have permission to use the ec2 DescribeVpcs action This allows them to view and select a VPC without this action the dialog box cannot load You can apply resource level permissions to all the ec2 PeeringConnection actions except ec2 DescribeVpcPeeringConnections The following policy allows users to view VPC peering connections and to use the Create VPC Peering Connection dialog box to create a VPC peering connection using a specific requester VPC vpc 1a2b3c4d only If users try to create a VPC peering connection with a different requester VPC the request fails Version 2012 10 17 Statement Effect Allow Action ec2 DescribeVpcPeeringConnections ec2 DescribeVpcs ly Resource Effect Allow Action ec2 CreateVpcPeeringConnection Resource arn aws ec2 vpc vpc la2b3c4a arn aws ec2 vpc peering connection For more examples of writing IAM policies for working with VPC peering connections see 7 Creating and managing VPC peering connections p 94 Flow Logs VPC Flow Logs is a feature that enables you to capture information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in your VPC Flow log data is stored using Amazon CloudWatch Logs After you ve created a flow log you can view and retrieve its data in Amazon CloudWatch Logs F
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242. net ALLOW Allows outbound responses to clients on the Internet for example serving web pages to people visiting the web servers in the subnet See the important note at the beginning of this topic about specifying the correct ephem eral ports DENY Denies all outbound traffic not already handled by a preceding rule not modifi able Recommended Rules for Scenario 2 Scenario 2 is a public subnet with instances that can receive and send Internet traffic and a private subnet that can t receive traffic directly from the Internet However it can initiate traffic to the Internet and receive responses through a NAT instance in the public subnet For more information see Scenario 2 VPC with Public and Private Subnets NAT p 22 For this scenario you have a network ACL for the public subnet and a separate one for the private subnet The following table shows the rules we recommend for each ACL They block all traffic except that which is explicitly required They mostly mimic the security group rules for the scenario ACL Rules for the Public Subnet Inbound Rule Source IP 100 0 0 0 0 0 110 0 0 0 0 0 120 Public IP ad dress range of your home net work 130 Public IP ad dress range of your home net work Protocol TCP TCP TCP TCP Port 80 443 22 3389 Allow Deny Comments ALLOW Allows inbound HTTP traffic from anywhere ALLOW Allows inbound HTTPS traffic from anywhere ALLOW
243. net to read and write to MySQL servers in the VPN only subnet Allows inbound SSH traffic from the home network over the virtual private gateway Allows inbound RDP traffic from the home network over the virtual private gateway Allows inbound return traffic from clients in the home net work over the virtual private gateway See the important note at the beginning of this topic about specifying the correct ephem eral ports Denies all inbound traffic not already handled by a preced ing rule not modifiable Comments Allows all outbound traffic from the subnet to your home network over the virtu al private gateway Allows outbound responses to the web servers in the public subnet See the important note at the beginning of this topic about specifying the correct ephem eral ports API Version 2015 04 15 85 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Recommended Rules for Scenario 4 120 Private IP address range of your home network 0 0 0 0 0 TCP all 49152 65535 all ALLOW DENY Allows outbound responses to clients in the home net work over the virtual private gateway See the important note at the beginning of this topic about specifying the correct ephem eral ports Denies all outbound traffic not already handled by a preceding rule not modifi able Recommended Rules for Scenario 4 Scenario 4 is a single subnet with instances that can communicate only
244. ng its corresponding default subnet in the console or by specifying the subnet or the Availability Zone in the CLI Launching an EC2 Instance Using the Console To launch an EC2 instance into your default VPC 1 Open the Amazon EC2 console 2 From the console dashboard click Launch Instance 3 Follow the directions in the wizard Select an AMI and choose an instance type You can accept the default settings for the rest of the wizard by clicking Review and Launch This takes you directly to the Review Instance Launch page 4 Review your settings In the Instance Details section the default for Subnet is No preference default subnet in any Availability Zone This means that the instance is launched into the default subnet of the Availability Zone that we select Alternatively you can click Edit instance details and select the default subnet for a particular Availability Zone 5 Click Launch to choose a key pair and launch the instance Launching an EC2 Instance Using the Command Line You can use one of the following commands to launch an EC2 instance e run instances AWS CLI ec2 run instances Amazon EC2 CLI API Version 2015 04 15 60 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Deleting Your Default VPC e New EC2Instance AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell To launch an EC2 instance into your default VPC use these commands without specifying a subnet or an Availability Zone To launch an EC2 instance into a spe
245. ng policy grants users permission to create and manage your VPC You might attach this policy to a group of network administrators The Action element specifies the API actions related to VPCs subnets Internet gateways customer gateways virtual private gateways VPN connections route tables Elastic IP addresses security groups network ACLs and DHCP options sets The policy also allows the group to run stop start and terminate instances It also allows the group to list Amazon EC2 resources The policy uses wildcards to specify all actions for each type of object for example SecurityGroup Alternatively you could list each action explicitly If you use the wildcards be aware that if we add new actions whose names include any of the wildcarded strings in the policy the policy would automatically grant the group access to those new actions The Resource element uses a wildcard to indicate that users can specify all resources with these API actions The wildcard is also necessary in cases where the API action does not support resource level permissions Version 2012 10 17 Statement Effect Allow Action ec2 Vpc ec2 Subnet ec2 Gateway Toei Von ec2 Route ec2 Address ec2 SecurityGroup ec2 NetworkAcl ec2 DhcpOptions ec2 RunInstances ec2 StopInstances ec2 StartInstances ec2 TerminateInstances ec2 Describe Resource
246. ns including its state the time since last state change and descriptive error text To test end to end connectivity 1 After the instance is running get its private IP address for example 10 0 0 4 The Amazon EC2 console displays the address as part of the instance s details 2 From a computer in your network that is behind the customer gateway use the ping command with the instance s private IP address A successful response is similar to the following PROMPT gt ping 10 0 0 4 Pinging 10 0 0 4 with 32 bytes of data Reply from 10 0 0 4 bytes 32 time lt lms L 128 Reply from 10 0 0 4 bytes 32 time lt ims L 128 Reply from 10 0 0 4 bytes 32 time lt lms L 128 Ping statistics for 10 0 0 4 API Version 2015 04 15 180 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Replacing Compromised Credentials Packets Sent 3 Received 3 Lost 0 0 loss Approximate round trip times in milliseconds Minimum Oms Maximum Oms Average Oms You can now use SSH or RDP to connect to your instance in the VPC For more information about how to connect to a Linux instance see Connect to Your Linux Instance in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances For more information about how to connect to a Windows instance see Connect to Your Windows Instance in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Microsoft Windows Instances Replacing Compromised Credentials If you believe that the tunnel credentials
247. nstances into your VPC You can configure your VPC you can select its IP address range create subnets and configure route tables network gateways and security settings A subnet is a range of IP addresses in your VPC You can launch AWS resources into a subnet that you select Use a public subnet for resources that must be connected to the Internet and a private subnet API Version 2015 04 15 1 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Supported Platforms for resources that won t be connected to the Internet For more information about public and private subnets see Your VPC with Subnets p 51 To protect the AWS resources in each subnet you can use multiple layers of security including security groups and network access control lists ACL For more information see Security in Your VPC p 62 Supported Platforms The original release of Amazon EC2 supported a single flat network that s shared with other customers called the EC2 Classic platform Older AWS accounts still support this platform and can launch instances into either EC2 Classic or a VPC Accounts created after 2013 12 04 support EC2 VPC only For more information see Detecting Your Supported Platforms and Whether You Have a Default VPC p 59 Default and Nondefault VPCs If your account supports the EC2 VPC platform only it comes with a default VPC that has a default subnet in each Availability Zone A default VPC has the benefits of the advanced features
248. o the NAT instance from your network over the Internet gateway API Version 2015 04 15 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Security for Scenario 2 Outbound Destination Protocol Port Range Comments 0 0 0 0 0 TCP 80 Allow outbound HTTP access to the Internet over the Internet gateway 0 0 0 0 0 TCP 443 Allow outbound HTTPS access to the Internet over the Internet gateway The DBServerSG security group is the security group that you ll specify when you launch your database servers into your private subnet The following table describes the recommended rules for this security group which allow read or write database requests from the web servers The database servers can also initiate traffic bound for the Internet your route table sends that traffic to the NAT instance which then forwards it to the Internet over the Internet gateway DBServerSG Recommended Rules Inbound Source Protocol Port Range Comments The ID of your WebServerSG TCP 1433 Allow web servers assigned to Web security group ServerSG Microsoft SQL Server ac cess to database servers assigned to DBServerSG The ID of your WebServerSG TCP 3306 Allow web servers assigned to Web security group ServerSG MySQL access to database servers assigned to DBServerSG Outbound Destination Protocol Port Range Comments 0 0 0 0 0 TCP 80 Allow outbound HTTP access to the Internet for example for software up dates 0 0 0 0 0 TCP 443 Allow outbound HT
249. o the same external location You can also use it to create VPN connections to multiple geographic locations API Version 2015 04 15 173 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Single VPN Connection Single VPN Connection Availability Zone Meaty Zone y S VPN Connection Custome Gateway Custgmer Gateway Customer Network Los Angeles _ Customer Network Chicago VPC Subnet a Mentha Ze Customer Gateway s Custome Gateway Customer Network Customer Network New York Miami VPN Routing Options When you create a VPN connection you must specify the type of routing that you plan to use The type of routing that you select can depend on the make and model of your VPN devices If your VPN device supports Border Gateway Protocol BGP specify dynamic routing when you configure your VPN connection If your device does not support BGP specify static routing For a list of static and dynamic routing devices that have been tested with Amazon VPC see the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud FAQs API Version 2015 04 15 174 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide What You Need for a VPN Connection When you use a BGP device you don t need to specify static routes to the VPN connection because the device uses BGP to advertise its routes to the virtual private gateway If you use a device that doesn t support BGP you
250. ocal _ wee ewe ee ee ee ee 0 0 0 0 0 igw id 172 31 0 0 16 By default each instance that you launch into a nondefault subnet has a private IP address but no public IP address unless you specifically assign one at launch or you modify the subnet s public IP address attribute These instances can communicate with each other but can t access the Internet EC2 Instances Subnet 1 10 0 0 0 24 Main Route Table Pee p gee eee ee ee Destination Target 10 0 0 0 16 local EC2 Instances Subnet 2 10 0 1 0 24 Availability Zone B VPC 1 10 0 0 0 16 Region You can enable Internet access for an instance launched into a nondefault subnet by attaching an Internet gateway to its VPC if its VPC is not a default VPC and associating an Elastic IP address with the instance API Version 2015 04 15 3 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Accessing a Corporate or Home Network Ce a l a a a a a a a Custom Route Table Destination Target 198 91 100 1 EWP 10 0 0 5 EC2 Instances Subnet 1 10 0 0 0 24 Main Route Table Destination Target EC2 Instances suonet 2 10 0 0 0 16 Alternatively to allow an instance in your VPC to initiate outbound connections to the Internet but prevent unsolicited inbound connections from the Internet you can use a network address translation NAT instance NAT maps multiple private IP addresses to a single public IP address A NAT
251. of the instance If you don t specify a primary private IP address we select an available IP address in the subnet range for you For more information about network interfaces see Elastic Network Interfaces in the Amazon EC2 User Guide You can assign additional private IP addresses known as secondary private IP addresses to instances that are running in a VPC Unlike a primary private IP address you can reassign a secondary private IP address from one network interface to another For more information about primary and secondary IP addresses see Multiple IP Addresses in the Amazon EC2 User Guide Note We refer to private IP addresses as the IP addresses that are within the CIDR range of the VPC Most VPC IP address ranges fall within the private non publicly routable IP address ranges specified in RFC 1918 however it is possible to use publicly routable CIDR blocks for your VPC We currently do not support direct access to the Internet from publicly routable VPC CIDR blocks if your VPC uses a publicly routable IP address range you must set up Internet access through a virtual private gateway a VPN connection or AWS Direct Connect Public IP addresses All subnets have an attribute that determines whether instances launched into that subnet receive a public IP address The public IP address is assigned to the default network interface ethO By default instances launched into a default subnet are assigned a public IP address A publ
252. ole and then choose Edit Trust Relationship to view the trust relationship Version 2012 10 17 Statement Silane TH Effect Allow Principal Service vpc flow logs amazonaws com Action sts AssumeRole Alternatively you can follow the procedures below to create a new role for use with flow logs Creating a Flow Logs Role To create an IAM role for flow logs 1 Open the IAM console at hitps console amazonaws cn iam 2 Inthe navigation pane choose Roles and then choose Create New Role 3 Enter a name for your role for example F low Logs Role and then choose Next 4 On the Select Role Type page next to Amazon EC2 choose Select 5 Onthe Attach Policy page choose Next Step 6 On the Review page take note of the ARN for your role You will need this ARN when you create your flow log When you are ready choose Create Role 7 Select the name of your role expand the Inline Policies section and then choose click here 8 Choose Custom Policy and then choose Select 9 Inthe section IAM Roles for Flow Logs p 109 above copy the first policy and paste it in the Policy Document window Enter a name for your policy in the Policy Name field and then choose Apply Policy 10 Inthe section IAM Roles for Flow Logs p 109 above copy the second policy the trust relationship and then choose Edit Trust Relationship Delete the existing policy document and paste in the
253. ommand line or an API For more information about the command line interfaces and a list of available APIs see Accessing Amazon VPC p 6 Poo NS Create a VPC peering connection create vpc peering connection AWS CLI ec2 create vpc peering connection Amazon EC2 CLI e New EC2VpcPeeringConnection AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell CreateVpcPeeringConnection Accept a VPC peering connection accept vpc peering connection AWS CLI ec2 accept vpc peering connection Amazon EC2 CLI e Approve EC2VpcPeeringConnection AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell e AcceptVpcPeeringConnection Describe VPC peering connections describe vpc peering connections AWS CLI ec2 describe vpc peering connections Amazon EC2 CLI e Get EC2VpcPeeringConnections AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell DescribeVpcPeeringConnections API Version 2015 04 15 159 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Controlling Access to VPC Peering Connections VPC Reject VPC peering connections reject vpc peering connection AWS CLI ec2 reject vpc peering connection Amazon EC2 CLI e Deny EC2VpcPeeringConnection AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell e RejectVpcPeeringConnection Delete a VPC peering connection delete vpc peering connection AWS CLI ec2 delete vpc peering connection Amazon EC2 CLI e Remove EC2VpcPeeringConnection AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell DeleteVpcPeeringConnection Add a route to a route table e
254. ommend you keep the VPN connection and the gateways Otherwise your network administrator must configure the customer gateway again after you create a new VPN connection To delete your VPC 1 Open the Amazon EC2 console at https console amazonaws cn ec2 2 Terminate all instances in the VPC For more information see Terminate Your Instance in the EC2 User Guide Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane choose Your VPCs Select the VPC to delete and then chooseActions and select Delete VPC If you need to delete the VPN connection select the option to do so otherwise leave it unselected Choose Yes Delete Subnets in Your VPC You can create a VPC that spans multiple Availability Zones For more information see Creating a VPC p 49 After creating a VPC you can add one or more subnets in each Availability Zone Each subnet must reside entirely within one Availability Zone and cannot span zones Availability Zones are distinct locations that are engineered to be isolated from failures in other Availability Zones By launching instances in separate Availability Zones you can protect your applications from the failure of a single location AWS assigns a unique ID to each subnet on Rw For information about the number of subnets that you can create see Amazon VPC Limits p 194 Topics Your VPC with Subnets p 51 Subnet Sizing p 52 Subnet Routing p 53 Subnet
255. on wizard take care of many of these steps for you For more information about using the VPC creation wizard to set up the virtual private gateway see Scenario 3 VPC with Public and Private Subnets and Hardware VPN Access p 32 or Scenario 4 VPC with a Private Subnet Only and Hardware VPN Access p 41 Although the term VPN connection is a general term in the Amazon VPC documentation a VPN connection refers to the connection between your VPC and your own network Topics Components of Your VPN p 173 VPN Configuration Examples p 173 VPN Routing Options p 174 What You Need for a VPN Connection p 175 Configuring Two VPN Tunnels for Your VPN Connection p 176 Using Redundant VPN Connections to Provide Failover p 177 Setting Up the VPN Connection p 177 Testing the End to End Connectivity of Your Instance p 180 Replacing Compromised Credentials p 181 Editing Static Routes for a VPN Connection p 181 Deleting a VPN Connection p 182 API and CLI Overview p 182 For information about how you re charged for using a VPN connection with your VPC see the Amazon VPC product page API Version 2015 04 15 172 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Components of Your VPN Components of Your VPN VPN AVPN connection consists of the following components Virtual Private Gateway A virtual private gateway is the VPN concentrator on the Amazon side of the VPN connection For information about
256. onnection The network statements differ slightly depending on the type of router you use When using an AWS VPN CloudHub you pay typical Amazon VPC VPN connection rates You are billed the connection rate for each hour that each VPN is connected to the virtual private gateway When you send data from one site to another using the AWS VPN CloudHub there is no cost to send data from your site to the virtual private gateway You only pay standard AWS data transfer rates for data that is relayed from the virtual private gateway to your endpoint For example if you have a site in Los Angeles and a second site in New York and both sites have a VPN connection to the virtual private gateway you pay 05 per hour for each VPN connection for a total of 10 per hour You also pay the standard AWS data transfer rates for all data that you send from Los Angeles to New York and vice versa that traverses API Version 2015 04 15 186 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide each VPN connection network traffic sent over the VPN connection to the virtual private gateway is free but network traffic sent over the VPN connection from the virtual private gateway to the endpoint is billed at the standard AWS data transfer rate For more information see VPN Connection Pricing API Version 2015 04 15 187 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Dedicated Instance Basics Dedicated Instances Dedicated Instances are Amazon EC2 instances that ru
257. ons with domain name servers AmazonProvidedDNS This is a DNS server that Amazon provides to enable any public subnets in your VPC to communicate with the Internet over an Internet gateway You must provide your own DNS server and add it to the list of DNS servers your VPC uses Sets of DHCP options aren t modifiable so you must create a set of DHCP options that includes both your DNS server and the Amazon DNS server and update the VPC to use the new set of DHCP options To update the DHCP options Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click DHCP Options Sets Click the Create DHCP Options Set button In the Create DHCP Options Set dialog box in the Domain name servers box specify the address of the Amazon DNS server AmazonProvidedDNS and the address of your DNS server separated by a comma and then click Yes Create In this example your DNS server is 192 0 2 1 In the navigation pane click Your VPCs Select the VPC and then click the Edit button in the Summary tab Select the ID of the new set of options from the DHCP options set list and then click Save Optional The VPC now uses this new set of DHCP options and therefore has access to both DNS servers If you want you can delete the original set of options that the VPC used PONS o Oe GI You can now connect to your instances in the VPC For information about how to connect to a Linux instance see Connect to Your Linux Ins
258. ore information about launching an Amazon EMR cluster into a VPC see Setting Up a VPC to Host Clusters in the Amazon Elastic MapReduce Developer Guide Note You can use the Amazon DNS server IP address 169 254 169 253 though some servers don t allow its use Windows Server 2008 for example disallows the use of a DNS server located in the 169 254 x x network range Changing DHCP Options After you create a set of DHCP options you can t modify them If you want your VPC to use a different set of DHCP options you must create a new set and associate them with your VPC You can also set up your VPC to use no DHCP options at all You can have multiple sets of DHCP options but you can associate only one set of DHCP options with a VPC ata time If you delete a VPC the DHCP options set associated with the VPC are also deleted After you associate a new set of DHCP options with a VPC any existing instances and all new instances that you launch in the VPC use these options You don t need to restart or relaunch the instances They automatically pick up the changes within a few hours depending on how frequently the instance renews its DHCP lease If you want you can explicitly renew the lease using the operating system on the instance Working with DHCP Options Sets This section shows you how to work with DHCP options sets Topics Creating a DHCP Options Set p 147 Changing the Set of DHCP Options a VPC Uses p 148 Changing a VP
259. ound and outbound rules 6 Add rules for inbound traffic using the Inbound Rules tab as follows a Click Edit b Click Add another rule and select HTTP from the Type list In the Source field specify the IP address range of your private subnet c Click Add another rule and select HTTPS from the Type list In the Source field specify the IP address range of your private subnet d Click Add another rule and select SSH from the Type list In the Source field specify the public IP address range of your network e Click Save 7 Add rules for outbound traffic using the Outbound Rules tab as follows a Click Edit b Click Add another rule and select HTTP from the Type list In the Destination field specify 0 0 0 0 0 c Click Add another rule and select HTTPS from the Type list In the Destination field specify 0 0 0 0 0 d Click Save For more information about security groups see Security Groups for Your VPC p 64 Disabling Source Destination Checks Each EC2 instance performs source destination checks by default This means that the instance must be the source or destination of any traffic it sends or receives However a NAT instance must be able to send and receive traffic when the source or destination is not itself Therefore you must disable source destination checks on the NAT instance You can disable the SrcDestCheck attribute for a NAT instance that s either running or stopped using the console or t
260. our instance resides Note If you do not have a route table associated with that subnet select the main route table for the VPC as the subnet then uses this route table by default 4 Click the Routes tab and then click Edit 5 Click Add Route 6 Inthe Destination field enter the IP address range to which the network traffic in the VPC peering connection must be directed You can specify the entire CIDR block of the peer VPC a specific range or an individual IP address such as the IP address of the instance with which to communicate For example if the CIDR block of the peer VPC is 10 0 0 0 16 you can specify a portion 10 0 0 0 28 or a specific IP address 10 0 0 7 32 7 Select the VPC peering connection from the Target list and then click Save Summary Routes Subnet Associations Route Propagation Tags Destination Target Status Propagated Remove 192 168 0 0 28 local Active No 10 0 0 0 28 pcx c37b9faa Active No x Add another route Describing Your VPC Peering Connections You can view all your VPC peering connections in the VPC console By default the console displays all VPC peering connections in different states including those that may have been recently deleted or rejected For more information about the lifecycle of a VPC peering connection see VPC Peering Connection Lifecycle p 154 To view your VPC peering connections 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpo 2 Inthe navigation pane c
261. p for the VPC The details pane displays the details for the security group plus tabs for working with its inbound and outbound rules On the Inbound Rules tab click Edit and add rules for inbound traffic as follows a Select SSH from the Type list and enter your network s private IP address range in the Source field b Click Add another rule then select RDP from the Type list and enter your network s private IP address range in the Source field c Click Save Summary Inbound Rules Outbound Rules Tags Cancel ES Type Protocol Port Range Source Remove ALL Traffic gt ALL ALL sg f994119c i SSH 22 TCP 6 22 172 0 0 0 8 i RDP 3389 TCP 6 3389 172 0 0 0 8 i Add another rule On the Outbound Rules tab click Edit locate the default rule that enables all outbound traffic click Remove and then click Save After your network administrator configures your customer gateway you can launch instances into your VPC If you re already familiar with launching instances outside a VPC then you already know most of what you need to know to launch an instance into a VPC To launch an instance Start the launch wizard API Version 2015 04 15 45 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Implementing Scenario 4 a Open the Amazon EC2 console at https console amazonaws cn ec2 b Click the Launch Instance button from the dashboard Follow the directions in the wizard Choose an AMI choose an instance type and then
262. place network acl association Amazon EC2 CLI e Set EC2NetworkAclAssociation AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Delete a network ACL e delete network acl AWS CLI e ec2 delete network acl Amazon EC2 CLI e Remove EC2NetworkAcl AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Recommended Network ACL Rules for Your VPC The VPC wizard helps you implement common scenarios for Amazon VPC If you implement these scenarios as described in the documentation you ll use the default network access control list ACL which allows all inbound and outbound traffic If you need an additional layer of security you can create a network ACL and add rules We recommend the following rules for each scenario Topics Recommended Rules for Scenario 1 e Recommended Rules for Scenario 2 e Recommended Rules for Scenario 3 e Recommended Rules for Scenario 4 p 79 p 80 p 83 p 86 i A ai API Version 2015 04 15 78 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Recommended Rules for Scenario 1 For more information about network ACLs and how to use them see Network ACLs p 70 Important We use the ephemeral port range 49152 65535 You can select a different range For more information see Ephemeral Ports p 74 Recommended Rules for Scenario 1 Scenario 1 is a single subnet with instances that can receive and send Internet traffic For more information see Scenario 1 VPC with a Single Public Subnet p 17 The following table shows the
263. ported Resources and Conditions for Amazon EC2 API Actions in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances For more information about creating IAM policies for Amazon EC2 supported resources for EC2 API actions as well example policies for Amazon EC2 see IAM Policies for Amazon EC2 in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances Topics e Example Policies for a CLI or SDK p 87 Example Policies for the Console p 97 Example Policies for a CLI or SDK The following examples show policy statements that you can use to control the permissions that IAM users have to Amazon VPC These examples are designed for users that use the AWS CLI the Amazon EC2 CLI or an AWS SDK 1 Managing a VPC p 89 API Version 2015 04 15 87 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Example Policies for a CLI or SDK 2 Read Only Policy for Amazon VPC p 90 3 Custom Policy for Amazon VPC p 90 4 Launching instances into a specific subnet p 91 5 Launching instances into a specific VPC p 92 6 Managing security groups in a VPC p 93 7 Creating and managing VPC peering connections p 94 8 Creating and managing VPC endpoints p 97 For example policies for working with ClassicLink see Example Policies for CLI or SDK in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances API Version 2015 04 15 88 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Example Policies for a CLI or SDK Example 1 Managing a VPC The followi
264. ptions to use with the VPC The following table lists all the supported options for a DHCP options set You can specify only the options you need in your DHCP options set For more information about the options see RFC 2132 DHCP Option Name Description domain name servers The IP addresses of up to four domain name serv ers or AmazonProvidedDNS The default DHCP option set specifies AmazonProvidedDNS If spe cifying more than one domain name server separ ate them with commas domain name If you re using AmazonProvidedDNS in us east 1 specify ec2 internal If you re using AmazonProvidedDNS in another region specify region compute internal for example ap north east 1 compute internal Otherwise specify a domain name for example MyCompany com Important Some Linux operating systems accept multiple domain names separated by spaces However other Linux operating systems and Windows treat the value as a single domain which results in unexpec ted behavior If your DHCP options set is associated with a VPC that has instances with multiple operating systems specify only one domain name ntp servers The IP addresses of up to four Network Time Pro tocol NTP servers For more information see section 8 3 of RFC 2132 netbios name servers The IP addresses of up to four NetBIOS name servers netbios node type The NetBIOS node type 1 2 4 or 8 We recom mend that you specify 2 broadcast and multicast are no
265. quest chooses the ephemeral port range The range varies depending on the client s operating system Many Linux kernels including the Amazon Linux kernel use ports 32768 61000 Requests originating from Elastic Load Balancing use ports 1024 65535 Windows operating systems through Windows Server 2003 use ports 1025 5000 Windows Server 2008 uses ports 49152 65535 Therefore if a request comes in to a web server in your VPC from a Windows XP client on the Internet your network ACL must have an outbound rule to enable traffic destined for ports 1025 5000 If an EC2 instance in your VPC is the client initiating a request your network ACL must have an inbound rule to enable traffic destined for the ephemeral ports specific to the type of instance Amazon Linux Windows Server 2008 and so on In practice to cover the different types of clients that might initiate traffic to public facing instances in your VPC you need to open ephemeral ports 1024 65535 However you can also add rules to the ACL to deny traffic on any malicious ports within that range Make sure to place the DENY rules earlier in the table than the rule that opens the wide range of ephemeral ports Working with Network ACLs This section shows you how to work with network ACLs using the Amazon VPC console Topics Determining Which Network ACL a Subnet Is Associated With p 74 Determining Which Subnets Are Associated with a Network ACL p 75 Creating a Network ACL p 75
266. r more information see Assigning a Public IP Ad dress During Launch p 118 By default DNS resolution is enabled You can now disable DNS resolution using the Amazon VPC or the Amazon EC2 API actions By default DNS hostnames are disabled for nondefault VPCs You can now enable DNS host names using the Amazon VPC console the Amazon EC2 command line interface or the Amazon EC2 API actions For more information see Using DNS with Your VPC p 149 Release Date 24 March 2014 10 October 2013 20 August 2013 11 March 2013 console the Amazon EC2 command line interface You can create IPsec VPN connections to Amazon VPC using static routing configurations Previously VPN connections required the use of the Border Gateway Protocol BGP We now support both types of connections and are excited to announce that you can now establish connectivity from devices that do not support BGP including Cisco ASA and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 You can now configure automatic propagation of routes from your VPN and Direct Connect links to your VPC routing tables This feature simplifies the effort to create and maintain connectivity to Amazon VPC You can securely communicate from one site to another with or without a VPC You can use redund ant VPN connections to provide a fault tolerant connection to your VPC Support in five AWS regions VPCs in multiple Availability Zones multiple VPCs per
267. r endpoint policy must allow full access to Amazon S3 or allow access to any S3 buckets that you ve created for your AWS CodeDeploy deploy ments Your endpoint policy must allow at least access to any S3 buckets used for Elastic Beanstalk applica tions For more information see Using Elastic Beanstalk with Amazon S3 in the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developer Guide Your subnet s route table must include a route to an Internet gateway and your endpoint policy must allow full access to Amazon S3 For more informa tion see VPC Errors in the Amazon Elastic MapReduce Developer Guide Your endpoint policy must allow at least access to specific buckets that are used by AWS OpsWorks For more information see Running a Stack ina VPC in the AWS OpsWorks User Guide Your endpoint policy must allow at least access to any S3 buckets used for loading data into your tables or for creating audit log files For more in formation see Loading Data in the Amazon Red shift Database Developer Guide and Database Audit Logging in the Amazon Redshift Cluster Management Guide API Version 2015 04 15 164 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Controlling the Use of Endpoints AWS service Note Amazon WorkDocs If you use an Amazon WorkDocs client in Amazon WorkSpaces or an EC2 instance your endpoint policy must allow full access to Amazon S3 Amazon WorkSpaces Amazon WorkSpaces does not directly depend on Amazon S3 however if you pro
268. r more information about assigning a public IP at launch see Assigning a Public IP Address During Launch p 118 Click Next Add Storage v You can choose to add storage to your instance and on the next page you can add tags Click Next Configure Security Group when you are done vi On the Configure Security Group page select the Select an existing security group option and select the NATSG security group that you created Click Review and Launch vii Review the settings that you ve chosen Make any changes that you need and then click Launch to choose a key pair and launch your instance Optional Connect to the NAT instance make any modifications that you need and then create your own AMI that s configured to run as a NAT instance You can use this AMI the next time that you need to launch a NAT instance For more information about creating an AMI see Creating Amazon EBS Backed AMls in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances Disable the SrcDestCheck attribute for the NAT instance see Disabling Source Destination Checks p 142 If you did not assign a public IP address to your NAT instance during launch step 3 you need to associate an Elastic IP address with it a Open the Amazon VPC console at htips console amazonaws cn vpc b Click Elastic IPs in the navigation pane c Click the Allocate New Address button d Inthe Allocate New Address dialog box in the Network platform list select EC2 VPC and the
269. r port range Outbound rules only The destination for the traffic CIDR range or security group and the destination port or port range Any protocol that has a standard protocol number for a list see Protocol Numbers If you specify ICMP as the protocol you can specify any or all of the ICMP types and codes When you specify a security group as the source for a rule this allows instances associated with the source security group to access instances in the security group Note that this does not add rules from the source security group to this security group When you add or remove rules they are automatically applied to all instances associated with the security group Some systems for setting up firewalls let you filter on source ports Security groups let you filter only on destination ports The following table describes example rules for a security group for web servers The web servers can receive HTTP and HTTPS traffic and send SQL or MySQL traffic to a database server Inbound Source Protocol Port Range Comments 0 0 0 0 0 TCP 80 Allow inbound HTTP access from anywhere API Version 2015 04 15 65 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Differences Between Security Groups for EC2 Classic and EC2 VPC 0 0 0 0 0 TCP 443 Allow inbound HTTPS access from anywhere Your network s public IP address TCP 22 Allow inbound SSH access to Linux range instances from your network over the Internet gateway Your network s
270. rent region For more information about regions see Regions and Availability Zones 3 On the Amazon VPC dashboard choose Start VPC Wizard API Version 2015 04 15 9 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Viewing Information About Your VPC VPC Dashboard Resources aa Filter by VPC None CD Launch EC2 Instances 4 Choose the first option VPC with a Single Public Subnet and then choose Select 5 On the configuration page enter a name for your VPC in the VPC name field for example my vpc and enter a name for your subnet in the Subnet name field This helps you to identify the VPC and subnet in the Amazon VPC console after you ve created them For this exercise you can leave the rest of the configuration settings on the page and choose Create VPC Optional If you prefer you can modify the configuration settings as follows and then choose Create VPC The IP CIDR block displays the IP address range that you ll use for your VPC 10 0 0 0 16 and the Public subnet field displays the IP address range you ll use for the subnet 10 0 0 0 24 If you don t want to use the default CIDR ranges you can specify your own For more information see VPC Sizing p 48 and Subnet Sizing p 52 The Availability Zone list enables you to select the Availability Zone in which to create the subnet You can leave No Preference to let AWS choose an Availability Zone for you For more information see Regions and Availabili
271. rityGroups action they can still create a security group using the dialog box but they may encounter an error that indicates that the group was not created In the Create Security Group dialog box users must add the security group name and description but they will not be able to enter a value for the Name tag field unless they ve been granted permission to use the ec2 CreateTags action However they do not need this action to successfully create a security group The following policy allows users to view and create security groups and add and remove inbound and outbound rules to any security group that s associated with vpc 1la2b3c4d Version 2012 10 17 Statement Effect Allow Action ec2 DescribeSecurityGroups ec2 DescribeVpcs ec2 CreateSecurity Group Ta Resource Fy Effect Allow Action ec2 DeleteSecurityGroup ec2 AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress ec2 AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress ec2 RevokeSecurityGroupIngress ec2 RevokeSecurityGroupEgress r Resource arn aws ec2 security group Condition ArnEquals ec2 Vpc arn aws ec2 vpc vpc la2b3c4d API Version 2015 04 15 105 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide VPC Flow Logs VPC Example 4 Creating a VPC peering connection To view VPC peering connections in the Amazon VPC console users must have permission to use the c2 DescribePeeringCon
272. rk s public IP address range in the Source field d Click Add another rule then select RDP from the Type list Enter your network s public IP address range in the Source field e Click Save API Version 2015 04 15 38 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Implementing Scenario 3 Summary Inbound Rules Outbound Rules Tags Cancel ES Type Protocol Port Range Source Remove HTTP 80 TCP 80 0 0 0 0 0 i x HTTPS 443 P 443 0 0 0 0 0 i x SSH 22 22 192 0 2 0 24 i x RDP 3389 3389 192 0 2 0 24 i x Add another rule On the Outbound Rules tab click Edit and add rules for outbound traffic as follows Locate the default rule that enables all outbound traffic and then click Remove Select MS SQL from the Type list In the Destination field specify the ID of the DBServerSG security group Click Add another rule then select MySQL from the Type list In the Destination field specify the ID of the DBServerSG security group Click Save To add the recommended rules to the DBServerSG security group 1 2 Select the DBServerSG security group that you created The details pane displays the details for the security group plus tabs for working with its inbound and outbound rules On the Inbound Rules tab click Edit and add rules for inbound traffic as follows a b Select SSH from the Type list and enter the IP address range of your network in the Source field Click Add another rule then sel
273. rst VPC wizard configuration option creates a VPC with a single subnet In your IAM policy you must grant users permission to use the following actions so they can successfully use this wizard option e ec2 CreateVpc ec2 CreateSubnet ec2 CreateRouteTable and c2 CreateInternetGateway To create a VPC a subnet a custom route table and an Internet gateway ec2 DescribeAvailabilityZones To display the section of the wizard with the Availability Zone list and the CIDR block field for the subnet Even if users intend to leave the default settings they will not be able to create a VPC unless those options are displayed e ec2 AttachInternetGateway To attach the Internet gateway to the VPC ec2 CreateRoute To create a route in the custom route table The route points traffic to the Internet gateway ec2 AssociateRouteTable To associate the custom route table to the subnet ec2 ModifyVpcAttribute To modify the VPC s attribute to enable DNS hostnames so that each instance launched into this VPC receives a DNS hostname None of the API actions in this policy support resource level permissions so you cannot control which specific resources users can use Version 2012 10 17 Statement Effect Allow Action ec2 CreateVpc ec2 CreateSubnet ec2 DescribeAvailabilityZones ec2 CreateRouteTable ec2 CreateRoute ec2 CreateInternetGateway ec2 AttachInternetGateway ec2 Asso
274. rver and MySQL access For your situation you might only need rules for Linux SSH and MySQL or Windows RDP and Microsoft SQL Server WebServerSG Recommended Rules Inbound Source Protocol Port Range Comments API Version 2015 04 15 35 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Security for Scenario 3 0 0 0 0 0 TCP 80 0 0 0 0 0 TCP 443 Your network s public IP address TCP 22 range Your network s public IP address TCP 3389 range Outbound The ID of your DBServerSG se TCP 1433 curity group The ID of your DBServerSG se TCP 3306 curity group Allow inbound HTTP access to the web servers from anywhere Allow inbound HTTPS access to the web servers from anywhere Allow inbound SSH access to Linux instances from your network over the Internet gateway Allow inbound RDP access to Win dows instances from your network over the Internet gateway Allow outbound Microsoft SQL Server access to the database servers as signed to DBServerSG Allow outbound MySQL access to the database servers assigned to DB ServerSG The DBServerSG security group is the security group that you ll specify when you launch your database servers into your VPN only subnet The following table describes the recommended rules for this security group which allow Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL read and write requests from the web servers and SSH and RDP traffic from your network The database servers can also initiate traffic
275. rverSG modify the rules as needed and then specify the security group when you launch instances into the VPC By default new security groups start with only an outbound rule that allows all traffic to leave the instances You must add rules to enable any inbound traffic or to restrict the outbound traffic The following table describes the inbound and outbound rules for the WebServerSG group If you want your web server to initiate outbound traffic for example to get software updates you can leave the default outbound rule If you do not want your web server to initiate outbound traffic you can remove the default outbound rule Inbound Source Protocol Port Range Comments 0 0 0 0 0 TCP 80 Allow inbound HTTP access to the web servers from anywhere 0 0 0 0 0 TCP 443 Allow inbound HTTPS access to the web servers from anywhere Public IP address range of your TCP 22 Linux instances Allow inbound SSH network access from your network Public IP address range of your TCP 3389 Windows instances Allow inbound network RDP access from your network Outbound Optional Destination Protocol Port Range Comments 0 0 0 0 0 All All Allow all outbound access to anywhere Tip You can also get the public IP address of your local computer using a service To locate a service that provides your IP address use the search phrase what is my IP address If you are connecting through an ISP or from behind a firewall without a static IP address
276. s console amazonaws cn vpo 2 Inthe navigation pane choose Elastic IPs 3 Choose Allocate New Address and then Yes Allocate Note If your account supports EC2 Classic first select EC2 VPC from the Network platform list 4 Select the Elastic IP address from the list and then choose Associate Address 5 Inthe dialog box choose Instance from the Associate with list and then select your instance from the Instance list Choose Yes Associate when you re done Your instance is now accessible from the Internet You can connect to your instance through its Elastic IP address using SSH or Remote Desktop from your home network For more information about how to connect to a Linux instance see Connecting to Your Linux Instance in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances For more information about how to connect to a Windows instance see Connect to Your Windows Instance Using RDP in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Microsoft Windows Instances This completes the exercise you can choose to continue using your instance in your VPC or if you do not need the instance you can terminate it and release its Elastic IP address to avoid incurring charges for them You can also delete your VPC note that you are not charged for the VPC and VPC components created in this exercise Such as the subnets and route tables Step 5 Clean Up Before you can delete a VPC you must terminate any instances that are running in the VPC If you delete aVPC
277. s for Windows PowerShell Internet Gateways An Internet gateway is a horizontally scaled redundant and highly available VPC component that allows communication between instances in your VPC and the Internet It therefore imposes no availability risks or bandwidth constraints on your network traffic An Internet gateway serves two purposes to provide a target in your VPC route tables for Internet routable traffic and to perform network address translation NAT for instances that have been assigned public IP addresses Enabling Internet Access To enable access to or from the Internet for instances in a VPC subnet you must do the following e Attach an Internet gateway to your VPC Ensure that your subnet s route table points to the Internet gateway Ensure that instances in your subnet have public IP addresses or Elastic IP addresses Ensure that your network access control and security group rules allow the relevant traffic to flow to and from your instance To use an Internet gateway your subnet s route table must contain a route that directs Internet bound traffic to the Internet gateway You can scope the route to all destinations not explicitly known to the route table 0 0 0 0 0 or you can scope the route to a narrower range of IP addresses for example the public IP addresses of your company s public endpoints outside of AWS or the Elastic IP addresses of other Amazon EC2 instances outside your VPC If your subnet is as
278. s open TCP connections Your tasks will be interrupted during the changeover and any previous connections using public IP addresses will not be resumed We recommend that you do not have any critical tasks running when you create or modify an endpoint or that you test to ensure that your software can automatically reconnect to Amazon S3 after the connection break If you ve used IP address conditions in your bucket policies to control access to your S3 buckets using the aws SourceIp condition access to your buckets is denied when the source IP addresses change to private IP addresses You cannot use the aws SourceIp condition in your bucket policies for private IP addresses in your VPC that condition is ignored for any requests to Amazon S3 via the endpoint Instead adjust your bucket policy to limit access to a specific VPC or a specific endpoint For more information see Using Amazon S3 Bucket Policies p 166 You must enable DNS resolution in your VPC for endpoints to work For more information see Using DNS with Your VPC p 149 API Version 2015 04 15 163 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Endpoint Basics Endpoints currently do not support cross region requests ensure that you create your endpoint in the same region as your bucket You can find the location of your bucket by using the Amazon S3 console or by using the get bucket location command Use a region specific Amazon S3 endpoint to access your
279. s users to accept VPC peering connection requests from AWS account 444455556666 only This helps to prevent users from accepting VPC peering connection requests from unknown accounts The first statement uses the ec2 RequesterVpc condition key to enforce this The policy also grants users permissions to accept VPC peering requests only when your VPC has the tag Purpose Peering Version 2012 10 17 Statement Effect Allow Action ec2 AcceptVpcPeeringConnection Resource arn aws ec2 region account vpc peering connection Condition ArnEquals ec2 RequesterVpe arn aws ec2 region 444455556666 vpc er Effect Allow Action ec2 AcceptVpcPeeringConnection Resource arn aws ec2 region account vpc Condition StringEquals ec2 ResourceTag Purpose Peering c Deleting a VPC peering connection The following policy allows users in account 444455556666 to delete any VPC peering connection except those that use the specified VPC vpc 1a2b3c4d which is in the same account The policy specifies both the ec2 AccepterVpc and ec2 RequesterVpc condition keys as the VPC may have been the requester VPC or the peer VPC in the original VPC peering connection request API Version 2015 04 15 95 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Example Policies for a CLI or SDK Version 2012 10 17 Statement Effe
280. se Endpoints Select your endpoint choose Actions and then choose Edit Policy In the dialog box you can choose Full Access to allow full access Alternatively choose Custom and then use the AWS Policy Generator to create a custom policy or type your own policy in the policy window When you re done choose Save Policy Note It can take a few minutes for policy changes to take effect Peo Ny gt To add or remove route tables used by an endpoint 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc API Version 2015 04 15 169 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide API and CLI Overview 2 Inthe navigation pane choose Endpoints 3 Select your VPC endpoint choose Actions and then choose Choose Route Tables 4 Inthe dialog box select or deselect the required route tables and then choose Save Describing Your Endpoints You can use the Amazon VPC console to view your endpoints and to view information about each one To view information about an endpoint Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane choose Endpoints Select your endpoint You can view information about the endpoint on the Summary tab for example you can get the prefix list name for the service in the Service field eee ers On the Route Tables tab you can view information about the route tables that are used by the endpoint On the Policy tab you can view the IAM policy that s atta
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282. set of DHCP options with your VPC at a time Changing the Set of DHCP Options a VPC Uses You can change which set of DHCP options your VPC uses If you want the VPC to use no DHCP options see Changing a VPC to use No DHCP Options p 148 Note The following procedure assumes that you ve already created the DHCP options set you want to change to If you haven t create the options set now For more information see Creating a DHCP Options Set p 147 To change the DHCP options set associated with a VPC 1 Open the Amazon VPC console 2 Click Your VPCs in the navigation pane 3 Select the VPC and select Edit DHCP Options Set from the Actions list 4 Inthe DHCP options set list select a set of options from the list and then click Save After you associate a new set of DHCP options with the VPC any existing instances and all new instances that you launch in that VPC use the options You don t need to restart or relaunch the instances They automatically pick up the changes within a few hours depending on how frequently the instance renews its DHCP lease If you want you can explicitly renew the lease using the operating system on the instance Changing a VPC to use No DHCP Options You can set up your VPC to use no set of DHCP options 1 Open the Amazon VPC console 2 Click Your VPCs in the navigation pane 3 Select the VPC and select default from the Actions list 4 Inthe DHCP options set list select default from
283. sociated with a route table that has a route to an Internet gateway it s known as a public subnet However the Internet gateway route is not sufficient to provide Internet access to instances in the subnet For more information about public and private subnets see Your VPC with Subnets p 51 To enable an instance in your public subnet to communicate with the Internet it must have a public IP address or an Elastic IP address that s associated with a private IP address on your instance Your instance is only aware of the private internal IP address space defined within the VPC and subnet The Internet gateway logically provides the one to one NAT on behalf of your instance so that when traffic leaves your VPC subnet and goes to the Internet the reply address field is set to the public IP address or Elastic IP address of your instance and not its private IP address Conversely traffic that s destined API Version 2015 04 15 133 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Creating a VPC with an Internet Gateway for public IP address or Elastic IP address of your instance has its destination address translated into the instance s private IP address before the traffic is delivered to the VPC Internet Access for Default and Nondefault VPCs Your default VPC comes with an Internet gateway and instances launched into a default subnet receive a public IP address by default unless you specify otherwise during launch or you modify the subnet
284. t The wizard automatically adds a route to those tables that points traffic destined for the service to the endpoint When you are done choose Create Endpoint You can use the VPC wizard to create a new VPC and to create an endpoint at the same time Instead of specifying the route tables that are used by the endpoint you specify the subnets that will have access to the endpoint The wizard adds an endpoint route to the route tables associated with those subnets To create a VPC and endpoint using the VPC wizard 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc On the Amazon VPC dashboard choose Start VPC Wizard 3 Selecta VPC configuration that suit your needs and then choose Select For more information about the types of configurations see VPC Wizard Scenarios for Amazon VPC p 17 API Version 2015 04 15 168 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Working with Endpoints 4 Onthe second page of the wizard fill in the VPC settings as required In the Add endpoints for S3 to your subnets section complete the following information e Select the subnets that will have access to the endpoint from the Subnet list The route tables associated with the subnets will include an endpoint route Select the type of policy from the Policy list You can leave the default option Full Access to allow full access to the service Alternatively choose Custom and then use the AWS Policy Generator to create a custom po
285. t currently supported For more information about these node types see RFC 2132 Amazon DNS Server When you create a VPC we automatically create a set of DHCP options and associate them with the VPC This set includes two options domain name servers AmazonProvidedDNSs and domain name domain name for your region AmazonProvidedDNS is an Amazon DNS server API Version 2015 04 15 146 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Changing DHCP Options and this option enables DNS for instances that need to communicate over the VPC s Internet gateway The string AmazonProvidedDNS maps to a DNS server running on a reserved IP address at the base of the VPC network range plus two For example the DNS Server on a 10 0 0 0 16 network is located at 10 0 0 2 The Amazon DNS server in your VPC is used to resolve the DNS domain names that you specify in a private hosted zone in Amazon Route 53 For more information about private hosted zones see Working with Private Hosted Zones in the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide Services that use the Hadoop framework such as Amazon EMR require instances to resolve their own fully qualified domain names FQDN In such cases DNS resolution can fail if the domain name servers option is set to a custom value To ensure proper DNS resolution consider adding a conditional forwarder on your DNS server to forward queries for the domain region name compute internal to the Amazon DNS server For m
286. t with which you want to create the VPC peering connection Select a VPC to peer with Ensure My account is selected and select another of your VPCs from the VPC ID list Only VPCs in the current region are displayed Important Ensure that your VPCs do not have overlapping CIDR blocks If they do the status of the VPC peering connection immediately goes to failed A confirmation dialog box provides the ID of the VPC peering connection as well as information about the VPCs in the peering connection Click OK To view all VPC peering connections that are pending your acceptance select Requests pending my approval from the filter list Select the VPC peering connection that you ve created and click Accept request In the confirmation dialog click Yes Accept A second confirmation dialog displays click Modify my route tables now to go directly to the route tables page or click Close to do this later Now that your VPC peering connection is active you must add an entry to your VPCs route tables to enable traffic to be directed between the peered VPCs For more information see Updating Route Tables for Your VPC Peering Connection p 157 Creating a VPC Peering Connection with a VPC in Another AWS Account You can request a VPC peering connection with a VPC that s in another AWS account Before you begin ensure that you have the AWS account number and VPC ID of the VPC to peer with After you ve created the request the owner of
287. tails pane The first row in the table is the local route which enables instances within the VPC to communicate This route is present in every route table by default and you can t remove it The second row shows the route that the Amazon VPC wizard added to enable traffic destined for an IP address outside the VPC 0 0 0 0 0 to flow from the subnet to the Internet gateway 6 Select the main route table The main route table has a local route but no other routes Step 2 Create a Security Group A security group acts as a virtual firewall to control the traffic for its associated instances To use a security group you add the inbound rules to control incoming traffic to the instance and outbound rules to control the outgoing traffic from your instance To associate a security group with an instance you specify the security group when you launch the instance If you add and remove rules from the security group we apply those changes to the instances associated with the security group automatically Your VPC comes with a default security group Any instance not associated with another security group during launch is associated with the default security group In this exercise you ll create a new security group WebServersSG and specify this security group when you launch an instance into your VPC Topics e Rules for the WebServerSG Security Group p 11 e Creating Your WebServerSG Security Group p 12 Rules for the WebServer
288. tance in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances For information about how to connect to a Windows instance see Connect to Your Windows Instance in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Microsoft Windows Instances Scenario 4 VPC with a Private Subnet Only and Hardware VPN Access The configuration for this scenario includes a virtual private cloud VPC with a single private subnet and a virtual private gateway to enable communication with your own network over an IPsec VPN tunnel There is no Internet gateway to enable communication over the Internet We recommend this scenario if you want to extend your network into the cloud using Amazon s infrastructure without exposing your network to the Internet Topics e Configuration for Scenario 4 p 41 Basic Components for Scenario 4 p 42 Routing for Scenario 4 p 43 e Security for Scenario 4 p 43 Implementing Scenario 4 p 44 Configuration for Scenario 4 The following diagram shows the key components of the configuration for this scenario API Version 2015 04 15 41 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Basic Components for Scenario 4 Custom Route Table Destination Target 10 0 0 0 16 local EC2 Instances VPN only subnet 10 0 0 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 vgw id VPN Connection Availability Zone A Router Virtual Private Gateway Customer Gateway Corporate Network Availability Zone B 10 0 0 0 16 Important For this scenar
289. tances and other Amazon EC2 features that you use If you choose to create a hardware VPN connection you pay for each hour that the VPN is connected to your VPC For more information see Amazon VPC Pricing and Amazon EC2 Pricing Amazon VPC Limits There are limits to the number of Amazon VPC components that you can provision You can request an increase in these limits For more information about these limits and how to request an increase see Amazon VPC Limits p 194 API Version 2015 04 15 7 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Getting Started with Amazon VPC In this exercise you ll create a VPC and subnet and launch a public facing instance into your subnet Your instance will be able to communicate with the Internet and you ll be able to access your instance from your local computer using SSH if it s a Linux instance or Remote Desktop if it s a Windows instance In your real world environment you can use this scenario to create a public facing web server for example to host a blog Note This exercise is intended to help you set up your own nondefault VPC quickly If you already have a default VPC and you want to get started launching instances into it and not creating or configuring a new VPC see Launching an EC2 Instance into Your Default VPC p 60 To complete this exercise you ll do the following Create a nondefault VPC with a single public subnet Subnets enable you to group instances based
290. termining Which Subnets Are Explicitly Associated with a Table You can determine how many and which subnets are explicitly associated with a route table The main route table can have explicit and implicit associations Custom route tables have only explicit associations Subnets that aren t explicitly associated with any route table have an implicit association with the main route table You can explicitly associate a subnet with the main route table for an example of why you might do that see Replacing the Main Route Table p 130 To determine how many subnets are explicitly associated 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc Click Route Tables in the navigation pane 3 Check the Explicitly Associated With column to determine the number of explicitly associated subnets To determine which subnets are explicitly associated 1 Select the route table of interest API Version 2015 04 15 128 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Working with Route Tables 2 Click the Subnet Associations tab in the details pane The subnets explicitly associated with the table are listed on the tab Any subnets not associated with any route table and thus implicitly associated with the main route table are also listed Creating a Custom Route Table Depending on your situation you might need to create your own route tables To create a custom route table Open the Amazon VPC console In the navigation pa
291. ternet bound traffic must first traverse the virtual private gateway to your network where the traffic is then subject to your firewall and corporate security policies If the instances send any AWS bound traffic for example requests to Amazon S3 or Amazon EC2 the requests must go over the virtual private gateway to your network and then to the Internet before reaching AWS Security for Scenario 4 AWS provides two features that you can use to increase security in your VPC security groups and network ACLs Both features enable you to control the inbound and outbound traffic for your instances but security groups work at the instance level while network ACLs work at the subnet level Security groups alone can meet the needs of many VPC users However some VPC users decide to use both security groups and network ACLs to take advantage of the additional layer of security that network ACLs provide For more information about security groups and network ACLs and how they differ see Security in Your VPC p 62 For scenario 4 you ll use the default security group for your VPC but not network ACLs If you d like to use a network ACL see Recommended Rules for Scenario 4 p 86 Recommended Security Group Rules Your VPC comes with a default security group whose initial settings deny all inbound traffic allow all outbound traffic and allow all traffic between the instances assigned to the security group We recommend that you add inbound rules
292. the navigation pane Select the Elastic IP address and then click the Release Address button When prompted click Yes Release Pew ws API and Command Overview You can perform the tasks described on this page using the command line or an API For more information about the command line interfaces and a list of available APIs see Accessing Amazon VPC p 6 Acquire an Elastic IP address allocate address AWS CLI ec2 allocate address Amazon EC2 CLI e New EC2Address AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Associate an Elastic IP address with an instance or network interface e associate address AWS CLI ec2 associate address Amazon EC2 CLI e Register EC2Address AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Describe one or more Elastic IP addresses e describe addresses AWS CLI e ec2 describe addresses Amazon EC2 CLI e Get EC2Address AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Disassociate an Elastic IP address disassociate address AWS CLI ec2 disassociate address Amazon EC2 CLI e Unregister EC2Address AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Release an Elastic IP address release address AWS CLI ec2 release address Amazon EC2 CLI e Remove EC2Address AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Assign a public IP address during launch e Use the associate public ip address or the no associate public ip address option with the run instances command AWS CLI API Version 2015 04 15 121 Amazon Virtual Private
293. the peer VPC must accept the VPC peering connection to activate it To create a VPC peering connection with a remote VPC Pow Ss Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click Peering Connections Click Create VPC Peering Connection In the dialog configure the information as follows and click Create when you are done Name You can optionally name your VPC peering connection Doing so creates a tag with a key of Name and a value that you specify This tag is only visible to you the owner of the peer VPC can create their own tags for the VPC peering connection Local VPC to peer Select the VPC in your account with which to create the VPC peering connection Select a VPC to peer with Select Another account and enter the AWS account ID and the ID of the VPC with which to create the VPC peering connection Important If your VPC and the peer VPC have overlapping CIDR blocks or if the account ID and VPC ID are incorrect or do not correspond with each other the status of the VPC peering connection immediately goes to failed A confirmation dialog box provides the ID of the VPC peering connection as well as information about the VPCs in the peering connection Click OK The VPC peering connection that you ve created is not active To activate it the owner of the peer VPC must accept the VPC peering connection request To enable traffic to be directed to the peer VPC update AP
294. tion of the CIDR block of the other VPC in the VPC peering connection API Version 2015 04 15 157 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Working with VPC Peering Connections Similarly the owner of the other VPC in the peering connection must add a route to one of their VPC s route tables to direct traffic back to your VPC For more examples of supported route table configurations for VPC peering connections see the Amazon VPC Peering Guide You can add a route for a VPC peering connection that s in the pending acceptance state however the route will have a state of blackhole and have no effect until the VPC peering connection is in the active State For more information about route tables see Route Tables p 123 Warning If you have a VPC peered with multiple VPCs that have overlapping or matching CIDR blocks ensure that your route tables are configured to avoid sending response traffic from your VPC to the incorrect VPC AWS currently does not support unicast reverse path forwarding in VPC peering connections that checks the source IP of packets and routes reply packets back to the source For more information see Routing for Response Traffic in the Amazon VPC Peering Guide To add a route for a VPC peering connection using the console 1 Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click Route Tables 3 Select the route table that s associated with the subnet in which y
295. tion pane click Route Tables and then select the route table that s associated with the subnet by default this is the main route table for the VPC On the Route Propagation tab in the details pane click Edit select the virtual private gateway that you created in the previous procedure and then click Save Note For static routing if you do not enable route propagation you must manually enter the static routes used by your VPN connection To do this select your route table then on the Routes tab in the details pane click Edit Add the static route used by your VPN connection in the Destination field select the virtual private gateway ID from the Target list and then click Save Update Your Security Group to Enable Inbound SSH RDP and ICMP Access To add rules to your security group to enable inbound SSH RDP and ICMP access 1 In the navigation pane click Security Groups and then select the default security group for the VPC On the Inbound tab in the details pane add rules that allow inbound SSH RDP and ICMP access from your network and then click Save For more information about adding inbound rules see Adding and Removing Rules p 67 Create a VPN Connection and Configure the Customer Gateway To create a VPN connection and configure the customer gateway 1 In the navigation pane click VPN Connections Click Create VPN Connection In the Create VPN Connection dialog box do the following and then click Yes
296. tively have 6 flow logs per network interface if you create 2 flow logs for the subnet and 2 flow logs for the VPC in which your network interface resides This limit cannot be increased API Version 2015 04 15 196 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Document History The following table describes the important changes in each release of this Amazon VPC guide Feature VPC Flow Logs VPC Endpoints ClassicLink Use private hosted zones Modify a subnet s public IP addressing attribute API Ver sion 2015 04 15 2015 03 01 2014 10 01 2014 09 01 2014 06 15 Description You can create a flow log to capture information about the IP traffic going to and from network inter faces in your VPC For more information see VPC Flow Logs p 106 An endpoint enables you to create a private con nection between your VPC and another AWS ser vice without requiring access over the Internet through a VPN connection through a NAT instance or through AWS Direct Connect For more inform ation see VPC Endpoints p 160 ClassicLink allows you to link your EC2 Classic instance to a VPC in your account You can asso ciate VPC security groups with the EC2 Classic instance enabling communication between your EC2 Classic instance and instances in your VPC using private IP addresses For more information see ClassicLink p 193 You can access resources in your VPC using cus tom DNS domai
297. ts to configure networking in your VPC IP Addresses p 116 Network Interfaces p 122 Route Tables p 123 Internet Gateways p 133 NAT Instances p 138 DHCP Options Sets p 145 DNS p 149 VPC Peering p 152 VPC Endpoints p 160 IP Addressing in Your VPC This topic describes the IP addresses available to your Amazon EC2 instances in your VPC Topics e Public and Private IP Addresses p 116 e Modifying Your Subnet s Public IP Addressing Behavior p 117 e Assigning a Public IP Address During Launch p 118 Elastic IP Addresses p 119 Public and Private IP Addresses We provide your instances in a VPC with IP addresses Private IP addresses are not reachable over the Internet and can be used for communication between the instances in your VPC Public IP addresses are reachable over the Internet and can be used for communication between your instances and the Internet or with other AWS services that have public endpoints Note To ensure that your instances can communicate with the Internet you must also attach an Internet gateway to your VPC For more information see Internet Gateways p 133 API Version 2015 04 15 116 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Modifying Your Subnet s Public IP Addressing Behavior Private IP addresses When you launch an instance into a VPC a primary private IP address from the address range of the subnet is assigned to the default network interface ethO
298. tual Private Cloud User Guide Example Policies for a CLI or SDK Example 5 Launching instances into a specific VPC The following policy grants users permission to launch instances into any subnet within a specific VPC The policy does this by applying a condition key ec2 Vpc to the subnet resource The policy also grants users permission to launch instances using only AMls that have the tag department dev Version 2012 10 17 Statement Effect Allow Action ec2 RunInstances Resource arn aws ec2 region account subnet Condition StringEquals ec2 Vpc arn aws ec2 region account vpc vpc la2b3c4d Effect Allow Action ec2 RunInstances Resource arn aws ec2 region image ami YCOnGdi pion s StringEquals ec2 ResourceTag department dev Effect Allow Action ec2 RunInstances Resource arn aws ec2 region account instance arn aws ec2 region account volume arn aws ec2 region account network interface arn aws ec2 region account key pair arn aws ec2 region account security group API Version 2015 04 15 92 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Example Policies for a CLI or SDK Example 6 Managing security groups in a VPC The following policy grants users permission to create and delete inbound and outbound rules for any security group w
299. ty Zones In the Add endpoints for S3 to your subnets section you can select a subnet in which to create aVPC endpoint to Amazon S3 in the same region For more information see VPC Endpoints p 160 The Enable DNS hostnames option when set to Yes ensures that instances that are launched into your VPC receive a DNS hostname For more information see Using DNS with Your VPC p 149 The Hardware tenancy option enables you to select whether instances launched into your VPC are run on shared or dedicated hardware Selecting a dedicated tenancy incurs additional costs For more information about hardware tenancy see Dedicated Instances p 188 6 A status window shows the work in progress When the work completes choose OK to close the status window 7 The Your VPCs page displays your default VPC and the VPC that you just created The VPC that you created is a nondefault VPC therefore the Default VPC column displays No CI o otoo Q x 1to 2of2VPCs Name a VPCID State VPC CIDR DHCP options set Route table Network ACL Tenancy Default VPC vpc 6f7 te available 172 31 0 0 16 dopt 627 1ed0e ttb 607 1ed0c acl 677 ted0b Default vg e mye vpe cd65 available 10 0 0 0 16 dopt 627 1ed0e ttb b77befd2 acl Ob93tcbe Default No Viewing Information About Your VPC After you ve created the VPC you can view information about the subnet the Internet gateway and the route tables The VPC that you created has two route tables a main route table that a
300. u can use a bucket policy to restrict access to a specific endpoint or to a specific VPC and you can use your route tables to control which instances can access resources in Amazon S3 via the endpoint Controlling the Use of Endpoints By default IAM users do not have permission to work with endpoints You can create an IAM user policy that grants users permission to create modify describe and delete endpoints We currently do not support resource level permissions for any of the ec2 VpcEndpoint API actions or for the c2 DescribePrefixLists action you cannot create an IAM policy that grants users permission to use a specific endpoint or prefix list For more information see the following example 8 Creating and managing VPC endpoints p 97 Controlling Access to Services When you create an endpoint you attach an endpoint policy to it that controls access to the service to which you are connecting If you re using an endpoint to Amazon S3 you can also use Amazon S3 bucket policies to control access to buckets from specific endpoints or specific VPCs Endpoint policies and Amazon S3 bucket policies must be written in JSON format API Version 2015 04 15 165 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Controlling Access to Services Topics Using Endpoint Policies p 166 Using Amazon S3 Bucket Policies p 166 Security Groups p 168 Using Endpoint Policies A VPC endpoint policy is an IAM resourc
301. u create with one of the custom route tables you ve created This ensures that you must explicitly control how each subnet s outbound traffic is routed For information about the limit on the number of route tables that you can create see Amazon VPC Limits p 194 The following diagram shows the routing for a VPC with both an Internet gateway and a virtual private gateway plus a public subnet and a VPN only subnet The main route table came with the VPC and it also has a route for the VPN only subnet There s a custom route table that s associated with the public subnet The custom route table has a route for the public subnet over the Internet gateway the destination is 0 0 0 0 0 and the target is the Internet gateway Private 10 0 0 5 EIP 198 51 100 1 EC2 Instance Public subnet 10 0 0 0 24 Private 10 0 1 5 Destination Target 10 0 0 016 local vgw id EC2 Instance VPN only subnet 10 0 1 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 Availability Zone B VPC 10 0 0 0 16 If you create a new subnet in this VPC it would be automatically associated with the main route table which routes its traffic to the virtual private gateway If you were to set up the reverse configuration the main route table with the route to the Internet gateway and the custom route table with the route to the virtual private gateway then if you create a new subnet it would automatically have
302. u created in step 2 Click Review and Launch g Review the settings that you ve chosen Make any changes that you need and then click Launch to choose a key pair and launch your instance 4 If you did not assign a public IP address to your instance as part of step 3 you will not be able to connect to it Assign an Elastic IP address to the instance Open the Amazon VPC console at htips console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane click Elastic IPs Click the Allocate New Address button Click Yes Allocate Note If your account supports EC2 Classic first choose EC2 VPC from the Network platform list ao 5 e Select the Elastic IP address from the list and then click the Associate Address button f In the Associate Address dialog box select the instance to associate the address with and then click Yes Associate You can now connect to your instances in the VPC For information about how to connect to a Linux instance see Connect to Your Linux Instance in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances For information about how to connect to a Windows instance see Connect to Your Windows Instance in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Microsoft Windows Instances Scenario 2 VPC with Public and Private Subnets NAT The configuration for this scenario includes a virtual private cloud VPC with a public subnet and a private subnet We recommend this scenario if you want to run a public facing web application while mainta
303. using the VPC console it also deletes resources that are associated with the VPC such as subnets security groups network ACLs DHCP options sets route tables and Internet gateways To terminate your instance release your Elastic IP address and delete your VPC 1 Open the Amazon EC2 console at https console amazonaws cn ec2 API Version 2015 04 15 15 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Step 5 Clean Up Po ONO In the navigation pane choose Instances Select your instance choose Actions then Instance State and then select Terminate In the dialog box expand the Release attached Elastic IPs section and select the check box next to the Elastic IP address Choose Yes Terminate Open the Amazon VPC console at https console amazonaws cn vpc In the navigation pane choose Your VPCs Select the VPC choose Actions and then choose Delete VPC When prompted for confirmation choose Yes Delete API Version 2015 04 15 16 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Scenario 1 VPC with a Single Public Subnet VPC Wizard Scenarios for Amazon VPC This section describes how to use the VPC wizard to create basic scenarios for Amazon VPC Each scenario includes the following information A diagram showing the basic components e Information about the VPC and subnets Information about the routing tables for the subnet e Information about the recommended security group rules e Step by step dire
304. vate Gateway to Your VPC p 172 How to Get Started with Amazon VPC To get a hands on introduction to Amazon VPC complete the exercise Getting Started with Amazon VPC p 8 The exercise will guide you through the steps to create a nondefault VPC with a public subnet and to launch an instance into your subnet If you have a default VPC and you want to get started launching instances into your VPC without performing any additional configuration on your VPC see Launching an EC2 Instance into Your Default VPC p 60 To learn about the basic scenarios for Amazon VPC see VPC Wizard Scenarios for Amazon VPC p 17 You can configure your VPC and subnets in other ways to suit your needs For more information about other scenarios see Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Connectivity Options The following table lists related resources that you ll find useful as you work with this service Resource Description Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Connectiv A whitepaper that provides an overview of the options for ity Options network connectivity Amazon VPC forum A community based forum for discussing technical questions related to Amazon VPC API Version 2015 04 15 5 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Services that Support Amazon VPC Resource AWS Developer Resources AWS Support Center Contact Us Description A central starting point to find documentation code samples release notes and other
305. ve tested see J Series Juniper SSG Yamaha to configure the customer gate What customer gateway devices way are known to work with Amazon VPC in the Amazon VPC FAQ Internet routable IP address Used to create and configure The IP address value must be static of the customer gateway s your customer gateway it s re static and may be behind a device external interface ferred to as YOUR_UPLINK_ performing network address ADDRESS translation NAT however NAT traversal NAT T is not suppor ted The IP address value must be unique within the region If the IP address is already in use by anoth er VPN connection in any AWS account in the same region you will get an InvalidCustomer Gateway DuplicatelIpAddress error when you try to create the VPN connection For more inform ation see Your Customer Gate way in the Amazon VPC Network Administrator Guide API Version 2015 04 15 175 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Configuring Two VPN Tunnels for Your VPN Connection Item Optional Border Gateway Pro tocol BGP Autonomous System Number ASN of the customer gateway if you are creating a dynamically routed VPN connec tion Internal network IP ranges that you want advertised over the VPN connection to the VPC How Used Used to create and configure your customer gateway referred to as YOUR_BGP_ASN If you use the wizard in the con sole to set up your VPC we automatically use 650
306. vide Amazon WorkSpaces users with Internet access then take note that web sites HTML emails and Internet services from other companies may depend on Amazon S3 Ensure that your endpoint policy al lows full access to Amazon S3 to allow these ser vices to continue to work correctly Traffic between your VPC and S3 buckets does not leave the Amazon network Endpoint Limitations To use endpoints you need to be aware of the current limitations You cannot use prefix list IDs to create an outbound rule in a network ACL that allows or denies outbound traffic to the service specified in an endpoint Instead you can use a prefix list ID in an outbound security group rule For more information see Security Groups p 168 You cannot create an endpoint between a VPC and an AWS service in a different region You cannot tag an endpoint You cannot transfer an endpoint from one VPC to another or from one service to another Endpoint connections cannot be extended out of a VPC Resources on the other side of a VPN connection a VPC peering connection an AWS Direct Connect connection or a ClassicLink connection in your VPC cannot use the endpoint to communicate with resources in the endpoint service When using Amazon S3 endpoints you cannot use a bucket policy or an IAM policy to allow access from a VPC CIDR range the private IP address range VPC CIDR blocks can be overlapping or identical which may lead to unexpected results Instead yo
307. vpc atiribute Amazon EC2 CLI e Get EC2VpcAttribute AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell To update DNS support for a VPC using the command line You can use one of the following commands For more information about these command line interfaces see Accessing Amazon VPC p 6 modify vpc attribute AWS CLI ec2 modify vpc attribute Amazon EC2 CLI Edit EC2VpcAttribute AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Using Private Hosted Zones If you want to access the resources in your VPC using custom DNS domain names such as example com instead of using private IP addresses or AWS provided private DNS hostnames you can create a private hosted zone in Amazon Route 53 A private hosted zone is a container that holds information about how you want to route traffic for a domain and its subdomains within one or more VPCs without exposing your resources to the Internet You can then create Amazon Route 53 resource record sets which determine how Amazon Route 53 responds to queries for your domain and subdomains For example if you want browser requests for example com to be routed to a web server in your VPC you ll create an A record in your private hosted zone and specify the IP address of that web server For more information about creating a private hosted zone see Working with Private Hosted Zones in the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide To access resources using custom DNS domain names you must be connected to an instance within your VPC From
308. ware VPN access The fourth VPC configuration option creates a VPC with a private subnet and creates a VPN connection between the VPC and your own network Unlike the other three options users do not need permission to create or attach an Internet gateway to the VPC and they do not need permission to create a route table and associate it with the subnet They will require the same permissions as listed in the previous example option 3 to establish the VPN connection None of the API actions in this policy support resource level permissions so you cannot control which specific resources users can use Version 2012 10 17 Statement Effect Allow Action f ec2 CreateVpc ec2 CreateSubnet ec2 DescribeAvailabilityZones ec2 ModifyVpcAttribute ec2 CreateCustomerGateway ec2 CreateVpnGat way z ec2 AttachVpnGateway ec2 EnableVgwRoutePropagation ec2 CreateVpn Connection ec2 DescribeVpnGateways ec2 DescribeCustomerGateways ec2 DescribeVpn Connections ec2 DescribeRouteTables ec2 DescribeNetworkAcls ec2 DescribelInter netGateways ec2 DescribeVpcs A Resource API Version 2015 04 15 102 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Example Policies for the Console Example 2 Managing a VPC On the Your VPCs page in the VPC console you can create or delete a VPC To view VPCs users must have permission to use the ec2 Descri
309. way 1 Inthe navigation pane click Virtual Private Gateways 2 Select the virtual private gateway and click Detach from VPC 3 Inthe Detach from VPC dialog box click Yes Detach If you no longer require a detached virtual private gateway you can delete it You can t delete a virtual private gateway that s still attached to a VPC To delete a virtual private gateway 1 Select the virtual private gateway to delete and click Delete 2 Inthe Delete Virtual Private Gateway dialog box click Yes Delete API and CLI Overview You can use the command line or an API action to set up and manage your VPN connection For more information including a list of available API actions see Accessing Amazon VPC p 6 Create a customer gateway e CreateCustomerGateway Amazon EC2 Query API ec2 create customer gateway Amazon EC2 CLI create customer gateway AWS CLI e New EC2CustomerGateway AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell API Version 2015 04 15 182 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide API and CLI Overview Create a virtual private gateway e CreateVpnGateway Amazon EC2 Query API ec2 create von gateway Amazon EC2 CLI create vpn gateway AWS CLI e New EC2VpnGateway AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Enable route propagation EnableVgwRoutePropagation Amazon EC2 Query API ec2 enable vgw route propagation Amazon EC2 CLI enable vgw route propagation AWS CLI Enable EC2VgwRoutePropagation AW
310. with your instance to ensure that traffic to and from the peer VPC is not restricted For more information about security groups see Security Groups for Your VPC p 64 A VPC peering connection is a one to one relationship between two VPCs You can create multiple VPC peering connections for each VPC that you own but transitive peering relationships are not supported you will not have any peering relationship with VPCs that your VPC is not directly peered with The following diagram is an example of one VPC peered to two different VPCs There are two VPC peering connections VPC A is peered with both VPC B and VPC C VPC B and VPC C are not peered and you cannot use VPC A as a transit point for peering between VPC B and VPC C If you want to enable routing of traffic between VPC B and VPC C you must create a unique VPC peering connection between them 10 0 0 0 16 N s 192 168 0 0 16 172 16 0 0 16 For more information about VPC peering limitations see VPC Peering Limitations p 154 For more information and examples of peering relationships that are supported see the Amazon VPC Peering Guide API Version 2015 04 15 153 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide VPC Peering Basics You are charged for data transfer within a VPC peering connection at the same rate as you are charged for data transfer across Availability Zones For more information see Amazon EC2 Pricing VPC Peering Connection Lifecycle A VPC peering connect
311. work ACL denied 2 123456789010 eni 1235b8ca 55 123 456 78 172 11 22 333 0 0 1 8 672 1432917027 1432917142 ACCEPT OK 2 123456789010 eni 1235b8ca 172 11 22 333 55 123 456 78 0 0 1 4 336 1432917027 1432917082 ACCEPT OK 2 123456789010 eni 1235b8ca 172 11 22 333 55 123 456 78 0 0 1 4 336 1432917094 1432917142 REJECT OK API Version 2015 04 15 114 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Example Creating a CloudWatch Metric Filter and Alarm for a Flow Log Example Creating a CloudWatch Metric Filter and Alarm for a Flow Log In this example you have a flow log for eni 1a2b3c4a You want to create an alarm that alerts you if there have been 10 or more rejected attempts to connect to your instance over TCP port 22 SSH within a 1 hour time period First you must create a metric filter that matches the pattern of the traffic for which you want to create the alarm Then you can create an alarm for the metric filter To create a metric filter for rejected SSH traffic and create an alarm for the filter 1 2 10 11 Open the CloudWatch console at hitips console amazonaws cn cloudwatch In the navigation pane choose Logs select the flow log group for your flow log and then choose Create Metric Filter In the Filter Pattern field enter the following version account eni source destination srcip destip 22 protocol 6 packets bytes wi
312. ws cn vpc In the navigation pane click Security Groups Click the Create Security Group button Specify WebServerSG as the name of the security group and provide a description Select the ID of your VPC from the VPC menu and then click Yes Create e Select the WebServerSG security group that you just created The details pane include a tab for information about the security group plus tabs for working with its inbound rules and outbound rules f On the Inbound Rules tab click Edit and then do the following ao 57 Select HTTP from the Type list and enter 0 0 0 0 0 in the Source field e Click Add another rule then select HTTPS from the Type list and enter 0 0 0 0 0 inthe Source field Click Add another rule then select SSH from the Type list Enter your network s public IP address range in the Source field If you don t know this address range you can use 0 0 0 0 0 for testing purposes in production you ll authorize only a specific IP address or range of addresses to access your instance Tip If your company uses both Linux and Windows instances you can add access for both SSH and RDP e Click Save Summary Inbound Rules Outbound Rules Tags cnet ED Type Protocol Port Range Source Remove HTTP 80 s TCP 80 0 0 0 0 0 i x HTTPS 443 s CP 443 0 0 0 0 0 i x SSH 22 TCP 22 192 0 2 0 24 i x RDP 3389 TCP 3389 192 0 2 0 24 i x Add another rule g Optional On the Outbound Rules tab
313. you can make it the main route table Note that Subnet 2 still has an explicit association with Route Table B and Subnet 1 has an implicit association with Route Table B because it is the new main route table Route Table A is no longer in use API Version 2015 04 15 125 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Route Tables for VPC Peering Connections Route Table A If you disassociate Subnet 2 from Route Table B there s still an implicit association between Subnet 2 and Route Table B If you no longer need Route Table A you can delete it Main Router a a Route Table B Main Route Tables for VPC Peering Connections A VPC peering connection is a networking connection between two VPCs that allows you to route traffic between them using private IP addresses Instances in either VPC can communicate with each other as if they are part of the same network To enable the routing of traffic between VPCs in a VPC peering connection you must add a route to one or more of your VPC s route tables that points to the VPC peering connection to access all or part of the CIDR block of the other VPC in the peering connection Similarly the owner of the other VPC must add a route to their VPC s route table to route traffic back to your VPC For example you have a VPC peering connection pcx 1a2b1a2b between two VPCs with the following information e VPC A vpc 1111aaaa CIDR block is 10 0 0 0 16 e VPC B vpc 2222bbbb CIDR bloc
314. zon VPC Network Administrator Guide API Version 2015 04 15 42 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide Routing for Scenario 4 Routing for Scenario 4 Your VPC has an implied router shown in the configuration diagram for this scenario For this scenario the VPC wizard creates a route table that routes all traffic destined for an address outside the VPC to the VPN connection and associates the route table with the subnet Otherwise you d need to create and associate the route table yourself The following table shows what the route table looks like for the example addresses used in the configuration diagram for this scenario The first row describes the entry for local routing in the VPC this entry enables the instances in this VPC to communicate with each other The second row describes the entry for routing all other subnet traffic to the virtual private gateway which is specified using its AWS assigned identifier for example vgw 1la2b3c4d Destination Target 10 0 0 0 16 local 0 0 0 0 0 VQW XXXXXXXX The VPN connection is configured either as a statically routed VPN connection or as a dynamically routed VPN connection using BGP If you select static routing you ll be prompted to manually enter the IP prefix for your network when you create the VPN connection If you select dynamic routing the IP prefix is advertised automatically to your VPC through BGP The instances in your VPC can t reach the Internet directly any In

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