AWS Virtual Networking Components (PLAB-AWS-FUN)

Welcome to the AWS Virtual Networking Components lab. In this lab, you will be provided with the instructions and devices needed to develop your hands-on skills.

Amazon Web Services provides several networking components that can be used to connect to several web services using the cloud platform.

These networking and content delivery services can be accessed through the AWS Management Console.

The core components of these services consist of the following:

API Gateway

The Application Programming Interface (API) gateway is used to build, deploy and manage different API’s on the AWS Cloud Platform.

AWS App Mesh

AWS App Mesh provides an application-level virtual network on the AWS Cloud platform to enable communication between different computing infrastructures, ensuring high application availability.

AWS Cloud Map

The AWS Cloud Map service is used to discover and define custom names for application resources and maintain these resources’ locations.

Amazon CloudFront

Dynamic and static web content can be easily distributed to customers using the Amazon CloudFront service. The service is used to distribute web content to data centers worldwide, also referred to as edge locations.

AWS Direct Connect

The AWS Direct Connect service is used to directly connect an on-premise infrastructure to AWS Cloud resources bypassing Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

AWS Global Accelerator

To ensure that users get the best experience when accessing AWS web services, AWS global accelerator can be used to direct web traffic on the least congested route to ensure that jitter, packet loss, and latency are kept to the minimum.

AWS Route 53

Amazon Route 53 is a highly scalable Domain Name Service (DNS) available on the AWS Cloud Platform that can consist of three core functions:

• Domain registrations

• DNS routing

• Resources Health Checking

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

The Amazon Virtual Private loud (VPC) service is used to create virtual networks on the AWS cloud platform to facilitate network communication between cloud resources.

Amazon VPC IP Address Manager

The VPC IP Address Manager is used on the AWS cloud platform to automatically manage and monitor the IP address uses. The VPC IP address manager ensures the correct allocation and management of the IP addresses.

In this module, some of these core components will be explored through AWS Management Console.

Alert: A prepopulated AWS account will be used to complete the exercises in this module. It will not be necessary to sign-up for a free account through Amazon Web Services. It is important to note that certain restrictions have been applied to the lab environment. These include that only specific resources can be created in the specified region. If the region is changed, the steps in the tasks will not function accordingly.