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Creating the VPC and Network Subnets

  1. Sign in to your Alibaba Cloud account: https://home.console.aliyun.com

  2. Click the  hamburger.png icon and click Virtual Private Cloud.

    menu_vpc.drawio.png

  3. In the VPC Manage Console, click VPC.

  4. Click Create VPC.

    create_vpc_button.drawio.png

  5. In the popup window:

  • Complete the VPC details.

Note

There are only 3 options for the CIDR blocks, which is the base network address range for all the subsequent subnets created within this VPC.

  • Complete the VSwitch details.

    • The CIDR block for this subnet must be a subset of the CIDR block of the VPC defined above.

    • All ECS instances created within this subnet have their private addresses assigned out of this subnet address range

  • Click the OK button.

    create_vpc_dialog.drawio.png

Note

In AliCloud all subnets are considered private subnets unless there is an Elastic IP assigned to an ECS running inside that particular subnet.