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AWS Administration Cookbook
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AWS Administration Cookbook

by Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan
April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
394 pages
10h 31m
English
Packt Publishing
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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
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