Creating Your First AWS VPC and EC2 Instance with Elastic IP

Amey — Sat, 17 May 2025 16:35:33 +0000

AWS VPC known as Virtual Private Network used to create isolated and secure network for our resources in the cloud.

In this blog , I will take you through the process of setting up VPC, launching an EC2 instance within our VPC and will assign Elastic IP to ensure public internet access. So in future you can deploy your application on AWS .

Step 1: Creating a VPC

Go to the VPC dashboard Click on “Create VPC”: Select the “Create VPC” option to start the configuration.

Choose your desired CIDR block , i chose 10.0.0.0/16

Click the “Create” button once your configuration is complete.

Step 2: Create a Subnet

Select all the details carefully as mentioned below

Step 3: Creating an Internet Gateway

Go to the Internet Gateways Section: In the VPC Dashboard, navigate to “Internet Gateways.”

Attach the IGW to the VPC: After the IGW is created, select it and click on “Attach to VPC.”

Step 4: Edit the Route Table

Go to the Route Tables Section: In the VPC Dashboard, navigate to “Route Tables.”

Select your route table for our VPC and add a route .

Step 5: Launch an EC2 Instance and make sure you are launching within your VPC which you created

Finally click on “launch Instance”

Step 6: Allocating and Associating an Elastic IP

Allocate elastic ip first select from the list and associate it to your instance.

Associate to instance.

Step 7: Test the EC2 instance with ping command to make sure instance can be reachable through internet.

Ping <your elastic ip>

By following these steps, you now understand how to configure networking in AWS and make your resources publicly accessible

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Creating Your First AWS VPC and EC2 Instance with Elastic IP