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Hands-on AWS VPC Labs: Essential Lab Exercises

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Hands-on AWS VPC Labs: Essential Lab Exercises

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1 module

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

1 week to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Gain hands-on experience in VPC lifecycle management.Plan and allocate IP addresses
Create public and private subnets, enable internet connectivity for VPC
Practice setting up VPC, subnets, and Internet Gateway components. Configure route tables to manage traffic between public subnets
Manage traffic flow between private instances and external resources via private subnet route tables. Practice configuring NAT Gateway.

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10 assignments

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Master AWS Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) with the Hands-on AWS VPC Labs Essentials Video Course, a must-have for cloud computing professionals and AWS certification seekers. AWS VPCs provide the foundation for creating isolated, secure sections within the cloud, enabling seamless deployment and management of resources.

This series of interactive labs is designed to elevate your networking skills through practical exercises that cover configuration, management, and troubleshooting of AWS VPCs. Video tutorials provide clear, step-by-step guidance through real-world scenarios, helping you build confidence in configuring and optimizing AWS VPCs. Each lab is carefully designed to give you experience with AWS VPC architecture, subnets, route tables, and security groups directly within the AWS environment.

This module offers a comprehensive, hands-on introduction to AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networking. Through guided labs and practical exercises, you’ll explore VPC fundamentals, including default VPCs, custom VPC creation, subnets, route tables, NAT and internet gateways. Advanced topics include VPC peering, transit gateways, VPC endpoints, PrivateLink, network load balancers, VPNs, and VPC flow logs. Designed for both beginners and those transitioning existing networking skills to AWS, this module builds essential knowledge for AWS certifications and equips you to confidently design, secure, and optimize VPCs for real-world cloud deployments.

What's included

56 videos11 readings10 assignments

56 videos Total 227 minutes

Introduction 3 minutes
Learning objectives 1 minute
Analyze the Basic Settings of the Default VPC 7 minutes
Route Tables, Subnets, and Network ACLs 8 minutes
Delete and Re-Create the Default VPC 2 minutes
Hands-on Lab 1: Default VPC 2 minutes
Learning objectives 1 minute
Understand VPC and CIDR Range 8 minutes
Create Public and Private Subnets 6 minutes
Create and Attach an Internet Gateway 6 minutes
Hands-on Lab 2: Create a VPC, Subnets, and Internet Gateway 1 minute
Learning objectives 1 minute
Configure a Route Table for a Public Subnet 8 minutes
Create Web Servers in a Public Subnet 12 minutes
Hands-On Lab 3: Configure Route Tables and a Web Server 2 minutes
Create a NAT Gateway 6 minutes
Configure a Route Table for a Private Subnet 7 minutes
Hands-on Lab 4: Create a NAT Gateway 1 minute
Learning objectives 1 minute
Create an Additional VPC 9 minutes
Configure a VPC Peering Connection 5 minutes
Configure Route Tables for VPC Peering 8 minutes
Hands-on Lab 5: VPC Peering 2 minutes
Learning objectives 1 minute
Create a Transit Gateway 4 minutes
Create a Transit Gateway Attachment 5 minutes
Configure Route Tables for a Transit Gateway 5 minutes
Perform Clean Up Tasks 3 minutes
Hands-on Lab 6: Transit Gateway 2 minutes
Learning objectives 1 minute
Create a Gateway VPC Endpoint for S3 5 minutes
Examine Route Table Entries for S3 Traffic 5 minutes
Hands-on Lab 7: VPC Endpoints 1 minute
Configure a Network Load Balancer and Target Group 12 minutes
Verify Load Balancer Operation 8 minutes
Hands-on Lab 8: Create a Network Load Balancer 1 minute
Learning objectives 1 minute
Create an Internal Network Load Balancer 6 minutes
Register an Endpoint Service 4 minutes
Set up the Customer Connection to the Endpoint Service 8 minutes
Connect from an Instance in the Customer VPC 7 minutes
Hands-on Lab 9: PrivateLink 3 minutes
Learning objectives 1 minute
Create a Custom IAM Policy and Role 5 minutes
Create a CloudWatch Log Group 2 minutes
Enable Flow Logs on Your VPC 4 minutes
Examine the Resulting Flow Logs 3 minutes
Hands-on Lab 10: VPC Flow Logs 2 minutes
Learning objectives 1 minute
Create the Customer Gateway and the Virtual Private Gateway 7 minutes
Create Site-to-Site VPN Configuration 4 minutes
View Configuration Details for On-Premises Customer Gateway (CGW) 3 minutes
Hands-on Lab 11: VPN Configuration 2 minutes
Clean up your AWS Account to Avoid Charges 7 minutes
Hands-on AWS VPC Labs: Summary 1 minute
Course Summary 1 minute

11 readings Total 110 minutes

Lab 1 - Default VPC 10 minutes
Lab 2 – Create a VPC 10 minutes
Lab 3 – Route Tables and Web Server 10 minutes
Lab 4 - Create a NAT Gateway 10 minutes
Lab 5 - VPC Peering 10 minutes
Lab 6 - Transit Gateway 10 minutes
Lab 7 - VPC Endpoints 10 minutes
Lab 8 – Create Network Load Balancer 10 minutes
Lab 9 - PrivateLink 10 minutes
Lab 10 - VPC Flow Logs 10 minutes
Lab 11 - Managed Hardware VPN 10 minutes

10 assignments Total 300 minutes

Review the Default VPC Quiz 30 minutes
Create a VPC Quiz 30 minutes
Public Subnets Quiz 30 minutes
VPC Peering Quiz 30 minutes
Transit Gateway Quiz 30 minutes
VPC Endpoints and Load Balancers Quiz 30 minutes
Use PrivateLink to Allow Communication between VPCs Quiz 30 minutes
Monitor Traffic with VPC Flow Logs Quiz 30 minutes
Secure Traffic Using VPNs Quiz 30 minutes
End of Assessment 30 minutes

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