AWS Security Cookbook

Adding a route for the NAT instance

We can add a route for our NAT instance as follows:

1. Go to the VPC dashboard.
2. Click on Route Tables.
3. Select the main route table for our VPC.
4. Click on the Routes tab.
5. Click on Edit routes.
6. Click on Add route and do the following:
   1. Set Destination to 0.0.0.0/0.
   2. From the drop-down menu for Target, click on Instance and then select our NAT instance.
   3. Click on Save routes:

We should get a success message.

7. Log in to the EC2 instance in the public subnet. From there, log in to the private EC2 instance. You can refer to the Launching an EC2 instance into a VPC recipe for the exact steps.

8. Try running any ...