Create VPC and Security Group

Prepare VPC, Security Group for EC2 instance

  1. Access the AWS Management Console

    • Find VPC
    • Select VPC

CreateEC2instance

  1. In the VPC interface

    • Select Your VPCs
    • Select Create VPC

CreateEC2instance

  1. In the Create VPC interface

    • In VPC settings, select VPC, subnets, etc.
    • Name tag auto-generation, enter cloudwatch
    • IPv4 CIDR block, enter 10.0.0.0/16
    • IPv6 CIDR block, select No IPv6 CIDR block

CreateEC2instance

  1. Select Create VPC

CreateEC2instance

  1. Select View VPC

CreateEC2instance

  1. Complete VPC creation.

CreateEC2instance

  1. In the VPC interface

    • Select Subnets
    • Select Public subnet
    • Check Auto-assign public IPv4 address
    • Then select Actions
    • Select Edit subnet settings

CreateEC2instance

  1. In the Edit subnet settings interface

    • Step Auto-assign IP settings, select Enable auto-assign public IPv4 address*
    • Select Save

CreateEC2instance

  1. Enable auto-assign public IPv4 address successfully

    • Check Auto-assign public IPv4 address

CreateEC2instance

  1. Go to the AWS Management Console

    • Find VPC
    • Select VPC

CreateEC2instance

  1. In the VPC interface

    • Select Security Group
    • Select Create security group

CreateEC2instance

  1. In the Create security group interface

    • Security group name, enter cloudwatch-subnet
    • Description, enter Subnet for CloudWatch instance
    • VPC, select the newly created VPC

CreateEC2instance

  1. Configure Inbound rules

    • Select Add rule and proceed with configuration
    • SSH
    • All ICMP-IPv4
    • All ICMP-IPv6
    • HTTP
    • HTTPS

CreateEC2instance

  1. Select Create security group*

CreateEC2instance

  1. Complete initialization Security group