AWS Practical Exercises -- 001

  Thursday, April 06, 2017      
Following exercises are given in order to test your skills and understanding. We will try to setup an environment and cover things along with. 

  1. In Oregon, create a VPC with CIDR 10.0.0.0/24
  2. Divide this VPC into 6 subnets across 2 AZ (e.g. a, b)
  3. Make 2 subnets as Public (namely 1-a, 1-b)
  4. Make 2 subnets as Private with outbound internet (namely 2-a, 2-b) 
  5. Make 2 subnets as Private with no outbound internet (namely 3-a, 3-b)
  6. Create a Public Classic ELB in 1-a and 1-b. It should accept traffic on port 80 from ANYWHERE. Create health checks for the instances in 2-a and 2-b.
  7. Create 2 Linux/Windows instances in 2-a and 2-b with web-server installed (Apache/IIS). These instances should accept traffic on port 80 only from ELB. Register these instances with the ELB.
  8. Create a multi-AZ MySQL RDS in 3-a and 3-b. This DB should accept traffic only on port 3306 from instances in 2-a and 2-b.
  9. Create a Jumpbox / Bastion host in 1-a or 1-b and verify the above connectivity.
  10. Ensure that Security Groups and NACLs are created properly. 
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