AWS Configuration Checklist

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Last UpdatedApr 07, 2025
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If you already have your AWS environment set up, you must confirm that all the items in the checklist below are properly configured. Failure to do so can lead to difficulties in getting your WAF Gateway deployment to work. More details are given in Configuring AWS Infrastructure.

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1	Design the deployment.	Determine which AWS components you will need and confirm that your AWS Service Limits enable you to configure them all.
2	Create the VPC.	Make sure that the VPC exists and the web servers are already deployed in it. If this is not the case in your deployment, create the VPC at this point. For more information, see VPC (Virtual Private Cloud).
3	Create the subnets.	Create a subnet for each group of AWS components. For more information, see Subnets.
4	Create a key pair.	Key pairs are used to launch instances and to connect to them. For more information, see Key Pair.
5	Enable Internet Connection.	Use either a NAT instance, NAT Gateway, or an HTTP Proxy to enable routing traffic from the Management Server and Gateways to the internet (for example, for a syslog server), and to notify AWS of the success or failure of instance creation. For more information, see NAT Instance and HTTP Proxy.
6	Update route tables.	An AWS route table corresponds to the route table of a physical router. For more information, see Route Table.
7	Create Elastic Load Balancers.	See Elastic Load Balancers.
8	Elastic IP Addresses	See Elastic IP Address.
9	Create security groups.	A security group corresponds to an internal firewall. For more information, see Security Groups.

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