| Task ID | Category | Description | Status & Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0001 | Deployment | Create EC2 instance (an AWS VM), then create an image from it. | Installed Acrobat, Chrome, Firefox, IIS, N++, WS Backup, Users (admin, standard) |
| 0002 | Deployment | Deploy EC2 instance from the image. | Completed |
| 0003 | Backup/Restore | Backup a EC2 instance on-demand, make changes (remove software, add user), then backup again | Completed |
| 0004 | Backup/Restore | Restore the EC2 instance to the first, then second recovery points: does it work? | Completed: It works; but a separate EC2 instance is created for each restore! |
| 0005 | Backup/Restore | Delete the Backups manually (also delete un-used/"Available" volumes: min storage $) | Completed |
| 0006 | Snapshots | Snapshot an EC2 instance (S) x3, do changes (C) x2: order-of-actions = S-C-S-C-S | Completed |
| 0007 | Snapshots | Revert/recover to snapshot1: does it work? | Completed: effective, but cumbersome |
| 0008 | Snapshots | Revert/recover to snapshot2: does it work? | Completed: yes |
| 0009 | Snapshots | Revert/recover to snapshot3: does it work? | Completed: yes |
| 0010 | Snapshots | Revert/recover to original volumes again: does it work? | Completed: yes |
| 0011 | Snapshots | Delete volumes created from snapshots, then delete the snapshots (min storage $) | Completed |
| 0012 | Storage | Create a volume of 20GB (type of gp2) | Completed |
| 0013 | Storage | Attach the volume to the VM, as the D: drive | Completed |
| 0014 | Storage | Increase volume size of the D: drive on the EC2 instance | Completed |
| 0015 | Storage | Detach (reference 1, reference 2) and re-attach D: volume while the host is running | Completed |
| 0016 | Networking | Create 3 public subnets in different availability zones | Completed: pub subnets have route to Inet via Internet gateway |
| 0017 | Networking | Create 3 private subnets in different availability zones | Completed: routing-tables of private subnets have no route to Internet; supernet = local |
| 0018 | Networking | Deploy EC2 instance from custom AMI image, no public IP (private VM) into private subnet | Completed |
| 0019 | Networking | Configure public IP EC2 instance for only RDP & ICMP external access | Completed: config access from personal IP only (security group config). |
| 0020 | Networking | Investigate: can pub & priv VMs comm freely? What is required? | Completed: yes; custom sec group configured to allow all TCP, UDP, ICMP traffic from anywhere in VPC |
| 0021 | Networking | Deploy NAT gateway for private subnet containing the private VM (see task 0018) | Completed. Note: the NAT gateway MUST be in a public subnet! |
| 0022 | Networking | Confirm Internet access from private EC2 instance | Completed |
| 0023 | Networking | Config private EC2 instance to allow RDP from any | Completed |
| 0024 | Networking | Investigate: can you RDP to private EC2 instance using NAT's public IP | Completed: No! |
| 0025 | Networking | Config DNAT on NAT gateway to redirect to private EC2 instance for RDP only | NOT allowed (see here) - It's not like in Alibaba Cloud |