Lab - Building Your First Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Explore the foundations of building an Amazon VPC

Build a custom Amazon VPC from scratch by configuring public and private subnets, an Internet Gateway, route tables, and security groups. Progress to deploying a web server and MySQL RDS instance, then connect and secure these resources to understand how core VPC components work together to support controlled network communication.

Discover how to connect and secure resources in your VPC

Bring your VPC configuration together by deploying application and database resources within an isolated network. Explore how subnets, gateways, route tables, and security groups manage connectivity and enable secure communication between your web server and MySQL RDS instance.

You’ll access learning content and practical activities online through Amazon Web Services (AWS), alongside your FutureLearn course experience, giving you direct access to AWS learning as you progress.

This course is ideal for infrastructure engineers and systems operators

This course is ideal for infrastructure engineers and systems operators

• Create an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
• Create a public and private subnets
• Create an Internet gateway
• Create a Route Table and add a route to the Internet
• Create a security group for your web server to only allow HTTP traffic to your web server
• Create a security group for your MySQL RDS instance to only allow MySQL traffic from your public subnet
• Deploy a web server and a MySQL RDS instance
• Configure your application to connect to your MySQL RDS instance