Now that we have launched servers in DigitalOcean, we will move on to starting to look at launching services within Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Before we launch instances, we will need to create a network for them to be hosted in. This is called a VPC, and there are a few different elements we will need to bring together in a playbook to create one, which we will then be able to use for our instances.

In this chapter, we will:

• Get an introduction to AWS
• Cover what it is we are trying to achieve and why
• Create a VPC, subnets, and routes—networking and routing
• Create security groups—firewall
• Create an Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)—load balancer