How to do it...

1. Log in to your AWS account and open the VPC Dashboard as shown in the earlier recipe.
2. Click on Internet Gateways in the left menu bar under the Virtual Private Cloud menu. You can see that the IG which was created with the default VPC in the region is visible:

1. Click on Create Internet Gateway. The following window will open. Provide a Name tag and click on Yes, Create:

1. You can see the IG is created. However, it is in the detached state. This means that it is not attached to any VPC:

1. Click on the Attach to VPC button. The following window will open. Select the VPC that we created and click on Yes, Attach:

1. Now you can see that the state of the IG has changed to attached:

1. If you want, you can click on Detach from VPC and then Delete the IG that you created.