Hosting Virtual Machines in a Multicloud Environment

Learn how to enable communication between Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, in this course.

Introduction

• Share resources between clouds
• What you should know

1. Plan for a Multicloud Environment

• Architectural planning
• Planning considerations

2. Create an AWS Virtual Private Cloud

• Create an AWS VPC
• Associate VPC to an internet gateway
• Create an elastic IP address

3. Create an AWS Gateway Server

• Create an EC2 gateway server instance
• Verify you can log in to the instance
• Associate elastic IP with instance
• Disable source and destination checking

4. Prepare Microsoft Azure Networking

• Create an Azure resource group
• Create a virtual network
• Create a virtual network gateway
• Update the AWS routing tables
• Create a local network gateway
• Configure the local network gateway

5. Create an RRAS Server

• Install Routing and Remote Access
• Install the VPN option
• Locate the virtual network gateway IP
• Configure RRAS VPN access
• Add a preshared key

6. Enable Connectivity

• Connect RRAS to Azure
• Verify connectivity from Azure

7. Test Virtual Machine Connectivity

• Deploy an EC2 instance
• Create an Azure VM
• Verify EC2 to Azure communications
• Verify Azure to EC2 communications

8. Build an Active Directory Environment

• Create an AWS directory
• Find the directory's DNS address
• Join an AWS instance to Active Directory
• Configure DNS on an Azure VM
• Join an Azure VM to Active Directory

Conclusion

• Next steps