How to do it...

1. Log in to your AWS account. AWS provides a default VPC in each region where the account has been created, with all the components listed above in each Availability Zone (AZ) in that region. After logging in to the account, select VPC in AWS services:

1. The VPC dashboard will appear. It is the place in the AWS console where you can manage all of the VPC and its related components. You need to select a different region from the top left menu option to see the VPCs and their related components for that region:

1. Click on Your VPCs in the VPC dashboard, the left menu option. We can see that the column Default VPC is Yes. This VPC has all components to host services in the cloud. This has been created to help new users create required resources in the VPC without understanding the complexity and relationship between different networking components in the VPC and without creating any of them:

1. Click on Create VPC. Put the VPC name tag and CIDR range. If you need IPv6 support for components, select Amazon provided IPv6 CIDR block. Don't change the other options and click on Yes, Create:

1. A VPC is created with the given details. Please take note of the VPC ID. As we can see, a Route Table and Network ACL have also been created and associated with the VPC:

1. We can select a VPC and from the action menu, we can edit details or delete a VPC, as shown in the screenshot following: