What Is Default Vpc Security Group
By default aws will let you apply up to five security groups to a virtual network interface but it is possible to use even more in extreme.
What is default vpc security group. A default vpc is ready for you to use so that you don t have to create and configure your own vpc. You can immediately start launching amazon ec2 instances into your default vpc. By default when you create a network interface it s associated with the default security group for the vpc unless you specify a different security group.
For this walkthrough specify default vpc security group and then choose next. In the security group list the default security groups are those with the group name shows as default. Security groups are applied at an instance s network interface.
In the navigation pane under security choose security groups. You are of course free to use the default security group but most administrators choose to create some custom vpc security groups to either replace or augment the default group. Configure security settings this walkthrough does require your load balancer to use a secure listener that is https or ssl on its front end connection so choose next.
If you created your aws account after 2013 12 04 it supports only ec2 vpc. For more information about network interfaces see elastic network interfaces. Configure health check set the ping path to.
Before you create any security groups however it is important to understand some applicable limits. Open the amazon vpc console.