Questions tagged [amazon-vpc]

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) lets you provision a logically isolated section of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) lets you provision a logically isolated section of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define. For additional information, see:

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How do you get AWS VPC EC2 instances to be able to see the AWS APIs?

We're spinning up infrastructure inside of an AWS VPC via CloudFormation. We're using auto-scaling groups to bring up VPC-EC2 instances (so, we don't bring up instances directly; ASGs manage that). Inside of a PVC, EC2 instances only have a private…
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Issue routing openswan vpn traffic beyond the server

Trying to set up a openswan based server sitting in an Amazon VPC cluster. The goal is to make it so we can VPN into VPC and have our workstations be as if they were on the network, more of a roadwarrior configuration. Our VPN client of choice is…
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Simplest possible VPN to Amazon EC2 instance

I have setup an EC2 instance (Windows Server 2008) that I will let different developers connect to. Since I want the connection to be secure I am trying to setup a VPN connection to that machine, but I don't have much idea on how to do this in the…
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EC2 VPC Intermittent outbound connection timeouts

My production web service consists of: Auto-scaling group Network loadbalancer (ELB) 2x EC2 instances as web servers This configuration was running fine until yesterday when one of the EC2 instances started to experience RDS and ElastiCache…
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Data transfer speed between AWS regions

Does anyone know what sort of data transfer speed we should be seeing on a VPC peering connection between 2 AWS regions (in this case us-west-2 and eu-west-2)? We tested this a couple of weeks ago, and saw speeds in excess of 200MB per second.…
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AWS: How do I find the list of instances associated with a particular subnet?

AWS now creates a default VPC and default subnet(s) for every instance launched. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/default-vpc.html You see the list of subnets either through the UI, or through the CLI $ aws ec2…
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Are multiple ENIs ever required for AWS EC2 instances?

AWS allows you to attach multiple elastic network interfaces (ENIs) to an EC2 instance. Other than "making it look like an on-prem server", are there any cases where multiple ENIs are actually required? I've considered the reasons one would do this…
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How to configure OpenVPN with Multiple VPCs in different region?

I have different VPCs in different regions in AWS: 10.1.0.0/16(A) 10.2.0.0/16(B) 10.3.0.0/16(C) I followed this article(http://cloudacademy.com/blog/openvpn-aws-vpc/) to open a vpn connection in order to let server instances in B to communicate…
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How to secure Redis cluster on AWS elasticache

I have been reading up on Redis with AWS Elasticache and am a little confused on security. So far, it seems the only security is to create a Redis Security Group that only allows access from either a specific security group or IP address. Is there…
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Specifying a VPC in a CloudFormation template for an EC2 instance

I'm launching an EC2 instance via a CloudFormation template, however, the specified instance t2.micro requires a VPC. How do I specify a VPC in the CloudFormation template? Here's my template: { "Description" : "Single Instance", …
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How do I find the AWS Quicksight IP Range

I'm looking to allow connections from AWS Quicksight to my PostgreSQL database. And in their FAQ they offer some advice that Quicksight has a dedicated IP range Q: How do I connect my VPC to Amazon QuickSight? If your VPC has been set up with…
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Automate war deployment in VPC's private subnet on tomcat7

I have a VPC with public and private subnets. Public subnet contains my Nating and Bastion instances Private subnet contains my application servers (3 ec2 instances running tomcat7 with my project war file). These 3 instance are behined the…
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Internet access from private VPC subnet?

My brain is a little bit fried trying to figure this out but I can't seem to get private subnets to connect to the internet to grab updates for example. Basically all I want is web access for these servers. I have tried solutions found in other…
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Connecting two AWS Regions: Why not use two Virtual Private Gateways?

I am attempting to connect two AWS regions. AWS's documentation suggests starting up an instance on both sides to run software IPSec (OpenSWAN or StrongSWAN), giving both instances an elastic IP and using that as a tunnel. That's all well and good,…
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Can I add an extra route to my Amazon VPC?

I have an Amazon VPC set up between AWS and my corporate LAN. Originally, when I set it up, I specified static routing for the following CIDRs: 10.55.55.0/24 10.77.77.0/24 10.99.99.0/24 I set up the following CIDR in the VPC: 10.44.0.0/16 This all…
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