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AWS Administration Cookbook

You're reading from   AWS Administration Cookbook Harness the full capability of AWS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787127630
Length 394 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Lucas Chan Lucas Chan
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Rowan Udell Rowan Udell
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Preface 1. AWS Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing AWS Accounts 3. Storage and Content Delivery 4. Using AWS Compute 5. Management Tools 6. Database Services 7. Networking 8. Security and Identity 9. Estimating Costs

Securely accessing private instances

Any instance or resource living in a private subnet in your VPC will be inaccessible from the Internet. This makes good sense from a security perspective because it gives your instances a higher level of protection.

Of course, if they can't be accessed from the Internet, then they're not going to be easy to administer.

One common pattern is to use a VPN server as a single, highly controlled, entry point to your private network. This is what we're going to show you in this recipe, as pictured in the following diagram:

Accessing private instances securely

Getting ready

We're going to use OpenVPN for this example. They provide a free (for up to two users) AMI in the AWS marketplace, which has OpenVPN already...

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