Step 1: Create and configure your Amazon VPC for your Simple AD Active Directory - Amazon Directory Service
Create a VPC for your Simple AD Active Directory
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Step 1: Create and configure your Amazon VPC for your Simple AD Active Directory

Create and configure a Amazon VPC for use with your Simple AD Active Directory. Before starting this procedure, make sure you have completed the Prerequisites. For more information about VPC, see What is Amazon VPC? in the Amazon VPC User Guide.

Create a VPC for your Simple AD Active Directory

Create a VPC with two public subnets. Amazon Directory Service requires two subnets in your VPC, and each subnet must be in a different Availability Zone.

  1. Open the Amazon VPC console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/vpc/.

  2. In the VPC Dashboard, choose Create VPC.

  3. Under VPC settings, choose VPC and more.

  4. Complete these fields as follows:

    • Keep Auto-generated selected under Name tag auto-generation. Change project to ADS VPC.

    • The IPv4 CIDR block should be 10.0.0.0/16.

    • Keep No IPv6 CIDR block option selected.

    • The Tenancy should remain Default.

    • Select 2 for the Number of Availability Zones (AZs).

    • Select 2 for the Number of public subnets. The number of private subnets can be changed to 0.

    • Choose Customize subnet CIDR blocks to configure the public subnet IP address range. The public subnet CIDR blocks should be 10.0.0.0/20 and 10.0.16.0/20.

  5. Choose Create VPC. It takes several minutes for the VPC to be created.