aws-vpc – DevOps & Infrastructure skill for AI agents

Design and implement VPCs and networking. Configure subnets, route tables, and security groups. Use when setting up AWS network infrastructure.

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SKILL.md content

AWS VPC

Design and manage Virtual Private Cloud networking for production AWS environments with proper subnet isolation, routing, and security.

When to Use This Skill

Building a new VPC for production, staging, or development
Setting up public/private subnet architecture across multiple AZs
Configuring NAT Gateways for private subnet internet access
Creating security groups and NACLs for network segmentation
Setting up VPC peering or Transit Gateway for multi-VPC connectivity
Implementing VPC endpoints for private access to AWS services
Troubleshooting connectivity issues between resources

Prerequisites

AWS CLI v2 installed and configured
IAM permissions scoped to the needed VPC actions/resources and approved account/region
CIDR range planning completed (avoid overlaps with on-premises or other VPCs)
For VPC peering: access to both VPCs (same or different accounts)

Network Architecture

Diagram address counts are total addresses; AWS reserves five per subnet, so a /24 normally has251 assignable addresses. Confirm account/region, AZ availability, nonoverlapping CIDRs, routing and approved cost before creation. CLI examples create twoAZs; the Terraform example creates three. Inspect existing resources and plan rollback rather than rerunning non-idempotent create commands. VPC/subnet tags do not enforce isolation: explicitly associate data subnets with local-only route tables and verify no inherited default route. New security groups allow all outbound by default; scope egress to actual dependencies.

VPC (10.0.0.0/16) - 65,536 IPs
├── Public Subnets (internet-facing via IGW)
│   ├── 10.0.1.0/24 (us-east-1a) - 256 IPs - ALBs, NAT GW, bastion
│   ├── 10.0.2.0/24 (us-east-1b) - 256 IPs
│   └── 10.0.3.0/24 (us-east-1c) - 256 IPs
├── Private Subnets (app tier, NAT GW for outbound)
│   ├── 10.0.11.0/24 (us-east-1a) - 256 IPs - ECS, EC2, Lambda
│   ├── 10.0.12.0/24 (us-east-1b) - 256 IPs
│   └── 10.0.13.0/24 (us-east-1c) - 256 IPs
├── Data Subnets (isolated, no internet)
│   ├── 10.0.21.0/24 (us-east-1a) - 256 IPs - RDS, ElastiCache
│   ├── 10.0.22.0/24 (us-east-1b) - 256 IPs
│   └── 10.0.23.0/24 (us-east-1c) - 256 IPs
├── Internet Gateway
├── NAT Gateways (one per AZ for HA)
├── Route Tables (public, private, data)
└── VPC Flow Logs → CloudWatch / S3

Create a VPC with CLI

# Create the VPC
VPC_ID=$(aws ec2 create-vpc \
  --cidr-block 10.0.0.0/16 \
  --tag-specifications 'ResourceType=vpc,Tags=[{Key=Name,Value=production-vpc},{Key=Environment,Value=production}]' \
  --query 'Vpc.VpcId' --output text)

# Enable DNS support and hostnames
aws ec2 modify-vpc-attribute --vpc-id $VPC_ID --enable-dns-support '{"Value":true}'
aws ec2 modify-vpc-attribute --vpc-id $VPC_ID --enable-dns-hostnames '{"Value":true}'

# Create public subnets
PUB_SUB_A=$(aws ec2 create-subnet \
  --vpc-id $VPC_ID \
  --cidr-block 10.0.1.0/24 \
  --availability-zone us-east-1a \
  --tag-specifications 'ResourceType=subnet,Tags=[{Key=Name,Value=public-a},{Key=Tier,Value=public}]' \
  --query 'Subnet.SubnetId' --output text)

PUB_SUB_B=$(aws ec2 create-subnet \
  --vpc-id $VPC_ID \
  --cidr-block 10.0.2.0/24 \
  --availability-zone us-east-1b \
  --tag-specifications 'ResourceType=subnet,Tags=[{Key=Name,Value=public-b},{Key=Tier,Value=public}]' \
  --query 'Subnet.SubnetId' --output text)

# Enable auto-assign public IP on public subnets
aws ec2 modify-subnet-attribute --subnet-id $PUB_SUB_A --map-public-ip-on-launch
aws ec2 modify-subnet-attribute --subnet-id $PUB_SUB_B --map-public-ip-on-launch

# Create private subnets
PRIV_SUB_A=$(aws ec2 create-subnet \
  --vpc-id $VPC_ID \
  --cidr-block 10.0.11.0/24 \
  --availability-zone us-east-1a \
  --tag-specifications 'ResourceType=subnet,Tags=[{Key=Name,Value=private-a},{Key=Tier,Value=private}]' \
  --query 'Subnet.SubnetId' --output text)

PRIV_SUB_B=$(aws ec2 create-subnet \
  --vpc-id $VPC_ID \
  --cidr-block 10.0.12.0/24 \
  --availability-zone us-east-1b \
  --tag-specifications 'ResourceType=subnet,Tags=[{Key=Name,Value=private-b},{Key=Tier,Value=private}]' \
  --query 'Subnet.SubnetId' --output text)

# Create data subnets (isolated)
DATA_SUB_A=$(aws ec2 create-subnet \
  --vpc-id $VPC_ID \
  --cidr-block 10.0.21.0/24 \
  --availability-zone us-east-1a \
  --tag-specifications 'ResourceType=subnet,Tags=[{Key=Name,Value=data-a},{Key=Tier,Value=data}]' \
  --query 'Subnet.SubnetId' --output text)

DATA_SUB_B=$(aws ec2 create-subnet \
  --vpc-id $VPC_ID \
  --cidr-block 10.0.22.0/24 \
  --availability-zone us-east-1b \
  --tag-specifications 'ResourceType=subnet,Tags=[{Key=Name,Value=data-b},{Key=Tier,Value=data}]' \
  --query 'Subnet.SubnetId' --output text)

Internet Gateway and NAT Gateway

# Create and attach Internet Gateway
IGW_ID=$(aws ec2 create-internet-gateway \
  --tag-specifications 'ResourceType=internet-gateway,Tags=[{Key=Name,Value=production-igw}]' \
  --query 'InternetGateway.InternetGatewayId' --output text)
aws ec2 attach-internet-gateway --vpc-id $VPC_ID --internet-gateway-id $IGW_ID

# Create public route table
PUB_RT=$(aws ec2 create-route-table \
  --vpc-id $VPC_ID \
  --tag-specifications 'ResourceType=route-table,Tags=[{Key=Name,Value=public-rt}]' \
  --query 'RouteTable.RouteTableId' --output text)
aws ec2 create-route --route-table-id $PUB_RT --destination-cidr-block 0.0.0.0/0 --gateway-id $IGW_ID
aws ec2 associate-route-table --route-table-id $PUB_RT --subnet-id $PUB_SUB_A
aws ec2 associate-route-table --route-table-id $PUB_RT --subnet-id $PUB_SUB_B

# Allocate Elastic IPs for NAT Gateways (one per AZ for HA)
EIP_A=$(aws ec2 allocate-address --domain vpc --query 'AllocationId' --output text)
EIP_B=$(aws ec2 allocate-address --domain vpc --query 'AllocationId' --output text)

# Create NAT Gateways in public subnets
NAT_A=$(aws ec2 create-nat-gateway \
  --subnet-id $PUB_SUB_A \
  --allocation-id $EIP_A \
  --tag-specifications 'ResourceType=natgateway,Tags=[{Key=Name,Value=nat-a}]' \
  --query 'NatGateway.NatGatewayId' --output text)

NAT_B=$(aws ec2 create-nat-gateway \
  --subnet-id $PUB_SUB_B \
  --allocation-id $EIP_B \
  --tag-specifications 'ResourceType=natgateway,Tags=[{Key=Name,Value=nat-b}]' \
  --query 'NatGateway.NatGatewayId' --output text)

# Wait for NAT Gateways
aws ec2 wait nat-gateway-available --nat-gateway-ids $NAT_A $NAT_B

# Create private route tables (one per AZ for HA NAT)
PRIV_RT_A=$(aws ec2 create-route-table \
  --vpc-id $VPC_ID \
  --tag-specifications 'ResourceType=route-table,Tags=[{Key=Name,Value=private-rt-a}]' \
  --query 'RouteTable.RouteTableId' --output text)
aws ec2 create-route --route-table-id $PRIV_RT_A --destination-cidr-block 0.0.0.0/0 --nat-gateway-id $NAT_A
aws ec2 associate-route-table --route-table-id $PRIV_RT_A --subnet-id $PRIV_SUB_A

PRIV_RT_B=$(aws ec2 create-route-table \
  --vpc-id $VPC_ID \
  --tag-specifications 'ResourceType=route-table,Tags=[{Key=Name,Value=private-rt-b}]' \
  --query 'RouteTable.RouteTableId' --output text)
aws ec2 create-route --route-table-id $PRIV_RT_B --destination-cidr-block 0.0.0.0/0 --nat-gateway-id $NAT_B
aws ec2 associate-route-table --route-table-id $PRIV_RT_B --subnet-id $PRIV_SUB_B

Security Groups

# ALB security group (public-facing)
ALB_SG=$(aws ec2 create-security-group \
  --group-name alb-sg \
  --description "Application Load Balancer" \
  --vpc-id $VPC_ID \
  --query 'GroupId' --output text)
aws ec2 authorize-security-group-ingress --group-id $ALB_SG --protocol tcp --port 443 --cidr 0.0.0.0/0
aws ec2 authorize-security-group-ingress --group-id $ALB_SG --protocol tcp --port 80 --cidr 0.0.0.0/0

# Application security group (only from ALB)
APP_SG=$(aws ec2 create-security-group \
  --group-name app-sg \
  --description "Application tier" \
  --vpc-id $VPC_ID \
  --query 'GroupId' --output text)
aws ec2 authorize-security-group-ingress \
  --group-id $APP_SG \
  --protocol tcp \
  --port 8080 \
  --source-group $ALB_SG

# Database security group (only from app tier)
DB_SG=$(aws ec2 create-security-group \
  --group-name db-sg \
  --description "Database tier" \
  --vpc-id $VPC_ID \
  --query 'GroupId' --output text)
aws ec2 authorize-security-group-ingress \
  --group-id $DB_SG \
  --protocol tcp \
  --port 5432 \
  --source-group $APP_SG

# List all security groups in the VPC
aws ec2 describe-security-groups \
  --filters "Name=vpc-id,Values=$VPC_ID" \
  --query "SecurityGroups[].{Name:GroupName,ID:GroupId,Description:Description}" \
  --output table

VPC Endpoints (Private Access to AWS Services)

# Gateway endpoint for S3 (free, route-table based)
aws ec2 create-vpc-endpoint \
  --vpc-id $VPC_ID \
  --service-name com.amazonaws.us-east-1.s3 \
  --route-table-ids $PRIV_RT_A $PRIV_RT_B \
  --tag-specifications 'ResourceType=vpc-endpoint,Tags=[{Key=Name,Value=s3-endpoint}]'

# Gateway endpoint for DynamoDB (free)
aws ec2 create-vpc-endpoint \
  --vpc-id $VPC_ID \
  --service-name com.amazonaws.us-east

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