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Create a Custom AWS VPC and DHCP Option Set
The goal of this hands-on lab is to create a custom DHCP option set for the VPC. We will walk through a VPC refresher and build a VPC from scratch, and then create the custom DHCP option set and assign the new option set to an EC2 instance.

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Challenge
Create an AWS VPC
- Create a VPC.
- Create an internet gateway, and attach it to your VPC.
- Create a route table.
- Add a route to the route table with the following values:
- Destination: 0.0.0.0/0
- Target: The internet gateway you created
- Create a subnet with an IPv4 CIDR block of 10.0.1.0/24. Then, associate it with your VPC and the route table you created.
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Challenge
Create a Custom DHCP Options Set
- Create a DHCP options set, and associate it with your VPC.
- Create an EC2 instance associated with your VPC and subnet.
- Once it's created, ensure its private DNS matches the domain name you entered for the DHCP options set.
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