Week 2 Worklog

Week 2 Objectives:

  • Understand Amazon VPC
  • Can deploy a comprehensive EC2 infrastructure following AWS

Tasks to be carried out this week:

DayTaskStart DateCompletion DateReference Material
2- Deploying Amazon EC2 Instances
- Practice:
  + Create EC2 Server
  + Test Connection
  + Create NAT Gateway
  + Using Reachability Analyzer
  + Create EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint
  + AWS Systems Manager Session Manager
  + CloudWatch Monitoring & Alerting
09/15/202509/15/2025https://000003.awsstudygroup.com/
3- Setting Up Site-to-Site VPN Connection in AWS
- Practice:
  + Create a VPN environment
  + Configure VPN Connection
  + VPN Connection using Strongswan with Transit Gateway
  + Clean up resources
09/16/202509/16/2025https://000003.awsstudygroup.com/
4- Set up Hybrid DNS with Route 53 Resolver
- Practice:
  + Generate Key Pair
  + Initialize CloudFormation Template
  + Configure Security Group
  + Connecting to RDGW
  + Microsoft AD Deployment
- Setup DNS
- Practice:
  + Create Route 53 Outbound Endpoint
  + Create Route 53 Resolver Rules
  + Create Route 53 Inbound Endpoints
  + Test results
  + Clean up resources
09/17/202509/17/2025https://000010.awsstudygroup.com/
5- Translate Blog
- Set up VPC peering
- Practice:
  + Initialize CloudFormatuon Templates
  + Create Security Group
  + Create EC2 Instance
  + Update Network ACL(NACLs)
  + Create VPC Peering
  + Configure Route Tables
  + Enable Cross-Peer DNS
  + Clean up resources
09/18/202509/18/2025https://000019.awsstudygroup.com/
6- Set up AWS Transit Gateway
- Practice:
  + Generate Key Pair
  + Initialize CloudFormation Template
  + Create Transit Gateway
  + Create Transit Gateway Attachments
  + Create Transit Gateway Route Tables
  + Add Transit Gateway Routes to VPC Route Tables
  + Clean up resoucre
09/19/202509/19/2025https://000020.awsstudygroup.com/

Week 2 Achievements:

  • Deploying Amazon EC2 instance success
  • Set up successfull VPC peering,DNS,Hybrid DNS with Route 53 resolver and AWS Transit Gateway, Site-to-Site VPN Connection