The IP address 10.20.1.1 came up during our security scan and I was wondering which resource this IP belongs to. I searched through the EC2 instances and wasn't able to find this IP, it looks like a network interface IP or something like this so was wondering if someone could please point me to the right direction so I can find the resource and match it to that IP.
From Subnets for your VPC - Amazon Virtual Private Cloud:
The first four IP addresses and the last IP address in each subnet CIDR block are not available for your use, and they cannot be assigned to a resource, such as an EC2 instance. For example, in a subnet with CIDR block 10.0.0.0/24, the following five IP addresses are reserved:
10.0.0.0: Network address.
10.0.0.1: Reserved by AWS for the VPC router.
10.0.0.2: Reserved by AWS. The IP address of the DNS server is the base of the VPC network range plus two. For VPCs with multiple CIDR blocks, the IP address of the DNS server is located in the primary CIDR. We also reserve the base of each subnet range plus two for all CIDR blocks in the VPC. For more information, see Amazon DNS server.
10.0.0.3: Reserved by AWS for future use.
10.0.0.255: Network broadcast address. We do not support broadcast in a VPC, therefore we reserve this address.
Since you have a subnet of 10.20.1.0/24, the address of 10.20.1.1 is Reserved by AWS for the VPC router.
AWS is responsible for routing traffic within a VPC according to the DHCP option sets in Amazon VPC. When a new instance launches and uses DHCP to obtain an IP address in the subnet, it is provided with the address of the router. Some network settings (such as DNS server) can be set, but AWS retains control of the router.
Your network scan detected the IP address associated with this router.
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Condition is : VPC CIDR - 10.0.0.0/28 and Subnet CIDR - 10.0.0.0/28
So that we know /28 to /32 will be creating CIDR blocks of (0 to 15) 16 total.
But, when I tried in AWS to create an EC2 machine it created only 11 machines.
The EC2 machine's IPs are listed below:
10.0.0.4 to 10.0.0.14 (in series)
Ok! Think out of the box.
In the specified range, the last CIDR block IP will be all 1's so (255.255.255.255)
Why has AWS given an error even though there are still 4 CIDR blocks available also?
They are mentioned below:
10.0.0.0/32, 10.0.0.1/32, 10.0.0.2/32, 10.0.0.3/32
Please help in this case with why they are not used by AWS and replied with an error message of no IPs available.
It's all in the docs:
The first four IP addresses and the last IP address in each subnet CIDR block are not available for your use, and they cannot be assigned to a resource, such as an EC2 instance. For example, in a subnet with CIDR block 10.0.0.0/24, the following five IP addresses are reserved:
10.0.0.0: Network address.
10.0.0.1: Reserved by AWS for the VPC router.
10.0.0.2: Reserved by AWS. The IP address of the DNS server is the base of the VPC network range plus two. For VPCs with multiple CIDR blocks, the IP address of the DNS server is located in the primary CIDR. We also reserve the base of each subnet range plus two for all CIDR blocks in the VPC. For more information, see Amazon DNS server.
10.0.0.3: Reserved by AWS for future use.
10.0.0.255: Network broadcast address. We do not support broadcast in a VPC, therefore we reserve this address.
More on subnet sizing in AWS here.
When we create a VPC, we generally allocate it a private IPv4 address range as specified in RFC 1918.
I am making an assumption that Internet Gateway, NAT Gateway etc. are hosted on AWS managed VPCs as they are highly available and scalable same like how a customer would design a service on AWS.
Are there private IPv4 ranges AWS reserves for its use to solve overlaps between Customer's VPC and their own VPCs that hosts Internet Gateway / NAT Gateway? How is the CIDR overlaps managed?
It appears that you are asking about overlaps between customer VPCs and the actual networks used to 'run' AWS. However, there is no such overlap.
All networking in VPCs is virtual. Infrastructure deployed within VPCs are given IP addresses from the VPC's CIDR range. For example, a NAT Gateway connects to a VPC via an Elastic Network Interface (ENI), which consumes a private IP address from within the VPC. This allows it to communicate with other resources in the VPC, such as EC2 instances, RDS databases and Load Balancers.
The Internet Gateway does not consume any private IP addresses. It is simply a routing concept between a VPC and the Internet.
The actual equipment that AWS uses to operate services runs on separate networks that exist 'outside of' VPCs.
Yes there are some ways AWS reserves ip addresses in your VPC :).
Firstly, the internet gateway actually does not use up an address in your VPC. The vpc router basically takes care of routes to the internet gateway (more on the vpc router below). I guess that they use all kinds of fancy network overlays and tricks to handle this traffic. Unfortunately I'm not enough of a network specialist to know the exact tech they use for this.
When creating a NAT gateway, AWS actually creates an elastic network interface inside your subnet with a a private ip address attached to it. You can see these when going to the 'elastic network interface' view in the EC2 console. Obviously, you can't reuse these addresses.
Thirdly, aws actually reserves several addresses per subnet. From the aws docs:
The first four IP addresses and the last IP address in each subnet CIDR block are not available for you to use, and cannot be assigned to an instance. For example, in a subnet with CIDR block 10.0.0.0/24, the following five IP addresses are reserved:
10.0.0.0: Network address.
10.0.0.1: Reserved by AWS for the VPC router.
10.0.0.2: Reserved by AWS. The IP address of the DNS server is the base of the VPC network range plus two. For VPCs with multiple CIDR blocks, the IP address of the DNS server is located in the primary CIDR. We also reserve the base of each subnet range plus two for all CIDR blocks in the VPC. For more information, see Amazon DNS server.
10.0.0.3: Reserved by AWS for future use.
10.0.0.255: Network broadcast address. We do not support broadcast in a VPC, therefore we reserve this address.
If you create a VPC or subnet using a command line tool or the Amazon EC2 API, the CIDR block is automatically modified to its canonical form. For example, if you specify 100.68.0.18/18 for the CIDR block, we create a CIDR block of 100.68.0.0/18.
So in short, the vpc router takes care of routing requests to AWS internet gateway, NAT gateways get their own elastic network interface and there are some other addresses reserved as well.
Private IP address can reuse in different network and can not be use in public, that's why it is called private.
If you use AWS services and if it is in a VPC, it will get an IP address in your CIDR range. Otherwise, it will allocate in AWS network.
I have created a VPC on aws with IPv4 CIDR block as 10.10.0.0/16
As per my understanding , The IP address range what's available should be from 10.10.0.0 to 10.10.255.255 .In other words , it should have 2^16 = 65536 IP addresses available . Is it correct ?
But when I am filling things in AWS , it's showing as this
It's not a correct assumption. x.x.x.0 and x.x.x.255 are reserved addresses everywhere, not only AWS. As for others:
10.0.0.0: Network address.
10.0.0.1: Reserved by AWS for the VPC router.
10.0.0.2: Reserved by AWS. The IP address of the DNS server is the base of the VPC network range plus two. For VPCs with multiple CIDR blocks, the IP address of the DNS server is located in the primary CIDR. We also reserve the base of each subnet range plus two for all CIDR blocks in the VPC. For more information, see Amazon DNS server.
10.0.0.3: Reserved by AWS for future use.
10.0.0.255: Network broadcast address. We do not support broadcast in a VPC, therefore we reserve this address.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Subnets.html
I'm setting up a new Amazon VPC through the console but it's restricted to between a /16 netmask and /28 netmask.
From the other side, a client expects to get an EC2 instance at their end of the tunnel from an internal network with a netmask of /30.
So then, how can I create a VPC which is capable of hosting EC2 instances on the CIDR block 172.30.228.184/30 ? How should that subnet be configured in order to communicate with the /30 block?
AWS preserve 4 IPs to use for there purpose on each subnet, so you cannot create /30 subnet. See This.
The first four IP addresses and the last IP address in each subnet CIDR block are not available for you to use, and cannot be assigned to an instance. For example, in a subnet with CIDR block 10.0.0.0/24, the following five IP addresses are reserved:
10.0.0.0: Network address.
10.0.0.1: Reserved by AWS for the VPC router.
10.0.0.2: Reserved by AWS. The IP address of the DNS server is always the base of the VPC network range plus two; however, we also reserve the base of each subnet range plus two. For VPCs with multiple CIDR blocks, the IP address of the DNS server is located in the primary CIDR. For more information, see Amazon DNS Server.
10.0.0.3: Reserved by AWS for future use.
10.0.0.255: Network broadcast address. We do not support broadcast in a VPC, therefore we reserve this address.
I am trying out AWS free tier and choose to set up a VPC with Public and Private Subnets.
The IP CIDR Block is defaulted to: 10.0.0.0/16 which is 65531 ip addresses. Both public and private subnets are set to 10.0.0.0/24.
Isn't the less the number of ip addresses that will fit my need the better for security? So for example, if I intend to run 2 EC2 then all I need is just 2 ip addresses?
I need to deploy a Meteor web application to be used by the public. Could some one please explain if I need to have the most number of ip address to server the hieghtest number of connection to my app? I am confused.
In VPC number of IP address does not matter as per the security goes. For better security it depends how you are exposing the application and the resources in your VPC to open world.
65531 IP address means your VPC can have 65531 EC2 instances into it. So if your application is going to have more than 65531 EC2 instances then you need to create a new VPC. And if you need less IP address for your VPC you can any time create another VPC with less IP address by tweaking the CIDR block as per your requirement.
As per the security goes you need to follow the AWS best practices when you are creating the infrastructure in a AWS VPC.
This is a good read
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/VPC_Security.html
http://harish11g.blogspot.com/2014/01/Amazon-Virtual-Private-Cloud-VPC-best-practices-tips-for-architecture-migration.html