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Configuring AWS Network Firewall

This hands-on lab walks you through how to create a VPC and a public subnet, and then deploy an AWS Network Firewall to filter the traffic coming into and going out of the VPC.

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Level

Intermediate

Duration

1h 30m

Published

Apr 20, 2023

Challenge

Create a VPC and a Public Subnet
1. Create a VPC with the tag Lab_VPC.
2. Create a public subnet named firewall-subnet in the same Availability Zone as the subnet in the VPC.
Challenge

Create a Network Firewall
1. Create a stateful rule group named statefulRules.
2. Create a stateless rule group named statelessRules.
3. Create a firewall policy named firewallLab and add the rule groups to the firewall policy.
4. Create a network firewall named networkFirewallLab and associate the firewall policy.
Challenge

Create Route Tables
1. Create a route table named igw-route.
2. Create a route table named firewall-route.
Note: You will need to configure the route tables to direct incoming and outgoing traffic through the network firewall once it has been provisioned.

Author

A Cloud Guru

The Cloud Content team comprises subject matter experts hyper focused on services offered by the leading cloud vendors (AWS, GCP, and Azure), as well as cloud-related technologies such as Linux and DevOps. The team is thrilled to share their knowledge to help you build modern tech solutions from the ground up, secure and optimize your environments, and so much more!

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