Lab: Providing Internet Access to a Private AWS Subnet

Published at September 22, 2019 ·  16 min read

Lab - Accessing the internet from a private subnet In this lab we are going to iteratively build a network containing a public subnet and a private subnet that can access the internet. We are going to start with the most basic network and continue to make modifications and observe the effects of the changes we make. To create the resources in our AWS account, we’re going to be using CloudFormation....

Providing Internet Access to a Private AWS Subnet

Published at September 12, 2019 ·  6 min read

When you create a VPC in AWS, and then a subnet within the VPC, it is private by default. By private I mean that nothing hosted in the subnet has internet access, and nothing from the internet is capable of making a connection to anything within the subnet. To make the subnet public, i.e. allow it to access the internet and in turn allow external sources to make a connection to endpoints hosted in the subnet, you must create an Internet Gateway and associate it with the subnet....