Steps To Create A New Network Security Group In Alibaba Cloud

In this blog, we will share the steps to create a new Network Security Group in Alibaba Cloud.

REQUIREMENTS TO CREATE NEW SECURITY GROUP

• Minimum free tier subscription with Alibaba cloud.

VPC CREATION FOR NEW SECURITY GROUP IN ALIBABA

• Open the web browser and access the Alibaba cloud URL www.alibabacloud.com

• Click on the Log In link.

• Provide your login credentials and select Sign In.

• Click on the console option.

• Click on the  button to expand the products list. Now select the Elastic Compute service under the Elastic Computing section.

• Click on security groups link under Networks and Security section.

• Select the region before creating any new resources.

• Click on Create Security Group Icon.

• We can use the existing security template (or) customize our own rules from the template drop-down list. In this demo, we select the webserver windows template.

• Provide the security group name and the relevant description.

• Select the network type as VPC from the drop-down list.

• Specify the existing VPC network to this security group.

• Ingress rules will be add automatically from the template. Click on OK.

• New windows will pop-up to create the ingress rules form your security group. Click on the Create Rules now.

• The new rules will be added in the Ingress section from the template.

• Our newly created security group is available on the list.

Thanks for reading this blog. We hope it was useful for you to know the steps to create a Network Security Group in Alibaba Cloud.