AWS Workspaces

By default when you provision a new workspace, it does not come with internet access.  Follow the steps below to give it internet access.

1. Navigate into your EC2 console, from the navigation pane select "Network Interfaces"
2. Look for the interface that has the private IP of your workspace
   1. You can find the IP of your workspace from the workspace console and expanding on the workspace
3. When you find the network interface, make a note of the VPD ID (this is your workspaces Virtual PC ID)
4. Navigate to the VPC Dashboard
5. Select "Your VPCs" from the navigation panel
6. Look for the workspace's VPC ID, if it's not there create a new one
7. Select "Subnets" from the navigation panel
8. Look for the workspace's VPD ID, if it's not there create a new one
9. Select "Internet Gateway" from the navigation panel
10. Create a new internet gateway
11. Attach the VPC to the gateway
12. Select "Routing Tables"
13. Locate the routing entry with the workspace's VPC ID
14. In the routes section below, add a new route of 0.0.0.0/0 and the target set to the new internet gateway you created in step 10