Create a Virtual Private Cloud Network

Create a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) so that you can later create a virtual machine for cloud scaling.

Login to your AWS Management Console and choose a region based on the geographical location of your users. All cloud resources that are created are placed in this region. For more information see Regions and Availability Zones. The menu for selecting a region is located at the upper right-hand corner of the AWS Console menu bar.
Figure 1. AWS Region

AWS Region
AWS documentation can be found at Getting Started with IPv4 for Amazon VPC and Working with VPCs and Subnets.

To configure the environment so that cloud nodes can be deployed in several Availability Zones, create a subnet for each Availability Zone that you want to deploy in. For more information see Multi-Availability Zone Management on AWS.

  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 Your VPCs from the menu located on the left-hand side of the web page.
Create a virtual private cloud.
  1. Click Create VPC.
  2. Enter the following to create a VPC:
    1. For Name, enter any name for the VPC.
      The name can be anything meaningful to your organization, e.g., scaling_vpc.
    2. For IPv4 CIDR block, provide an address range in CIDR notation.
    3. For IPv6 CIDR block, enable No IPv6 CIDR Block.
    4. For Tenancy, choose Default.
  3. Click Yes, Create.

Create subnets for the VPC:

  1. Click Subnets from the menu located on the left-hand side of the web page.
  2. Click Create Subnet.
    1. For Name tag, enter a name for the subnet.
      The name can be anything meaningful to your organization, e.g., scaling_subnet.
    2. For VPC, choose the VPC that was previously created (e.g. scaling_vpc).
    3. For Availability Zone, choose one of the following options:
      • Choose a unique availability zone for each subnet.
      • Choose No Preference to let Amazon choose an Availability Zone for you.
    4. For IPv4 CIDR block, provide an address range in CIDR notation.
  3. Click Create.
  4. Click Close.