Create an Internet Gateway

Create an internet gateway and attach it to the scaling VPC.

AWS documentation can be found at Internet Gateways.

An internet gateway must be created so that you can later SSH into the virtual machine that is used for cloud scaling.

  1. Login in the AWS console.
  2. Click the AWS logo located in the left-hand corner of the web page.
  3. Using the search box located under AWS services, enter VPC.
  4. Click the VPC search result.
    The VPC dashboard is opened.
  5. Click Internet Gateways from the menu located on the left-hand side of the web page.
  6. Click Create internet gateway.
  7. Enter the following to create an internet gateway:
    1. For Name tag, enter a name for the internet gateway.
      The name can be anything meaningful to your organization, e.g., scaling_gateway
  8. Click Create.
  9. Click Close.
  10. Select the internet gateway that was just created by enabling the check box next to the name of the gateway.
    Tip: You may need to deselect any other internet gateways that are displayed in the list. Amazon creates default resources for your selected region so a default internet gateway may already exist.
  11. Click Actions > Attach to VPC.
  12. Select the VPC that was created previously (e.g. scaling_vpc).
  13. Click Attach internet gateway.