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Demo: Security groups

Demo: Security groups - Amazon EC2 Tutorial

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Demo: Security groups

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- Now let's understand how to configure security groups. You can configure a security group when you're launching an EC2 instance. Once you're logged into the EC2 console, click the launch instances button. Scroll down to the network settings section and click the edit button. From here, you can create a new security group or associate an existing security group. To create a new security group, you must provide a name and description and then configure the inbound rules. When you're creating a security group from here, that is from the EC2 instance Launch Wizard, you can only configure inbound rules. You cannot configure outbound rules from this console. Once the security group has been created, you can then change the outbound rules, but it cannot be configured from this console. Also, bear in mind that the rules you're configuring here are allow rules. We learned this earlier that security groups only support allow…

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