I am fairly new to GCP networking and I could use some guidance. I'm sure there is a simple explanation for what I'd like to accomplish. I believe its just a simple firewall rule but I'm not sure how to configure the rule.
I current have 3 subnets in the same VPC network. I'd like subnet-a to be a "jump-network" for admins doing work on compute instances in subnet-b and subnet-c over various ports. i.e. 22, 3389, 80, 443 etc etc. Admins will work on a jump VM (windows) in subnet-a and access compute instances (both windows/linux) in subnet-b and subnet-c. (using private IP addresses)
I'm sure there are simple firewall rules to allow connectivity between subnets inside the same VPC. Can someone help me? What are the firewall rules?
Thanks. Any and all input from the community is greatly appreciated.
Ive tried several firewall rules from various google searches, but I don't want to leave my network open to the malicious threat actors by incorrectly configuring the firewall.
As answered by #JohnHanley in another post
VPC subnets within the same VPC can communicate with each other. The VPC Firewall rule default-allow-internal allows all TCP, UDP, and ICMP traffic between resources within the same VPC. The key is to use the internal (private) IP address.
When creating VPC Networks, you have the option to automatically create default firewall rules such as default-allow-internal which allows connectivity between instances on any port. As mentioned, you'll just have to use the Internal IP address of the instance(s) that you are trying to connect to
You may refer to this documentation as a helpful guide for creating simple Firewall rules for your use case.
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I am new to AWS that's why, I am asking this question. Is it possible in AWS network firewall to only allow the incoming traffic from outside that comes from a particular DNS. According to my knowledge, it's easily possible with IP address but the problem is that the IP address of the source does not remain same and is dynamic. I have also read in various posts that in security groups we also can not mention DNS and we can only mention IP addresses. I have also read that in AWS network firewall, it's also possible to block traffic for a particular domain that's generated from EC2 instance using firewall but is it possible the other way around? Is it possible to only allow the traffic of the particular DNS that's coming from the Internet gateway to the VPC using AWS network firewall. Can anyone guide me in this regard?
We are using a shared VPC with two subnets (10.65.0.0/16 and 10.66.0.0/16). The shared VPC has connection to on-prem network, so both two subnets can access the resource hosted on on-prem. Since we use one subnet for DEV environment, and the other one for PROD environment, we want to block all traffic between those two subnets. I don't want to manage those firewall rules by using tags or service accounts of each instance hosting on those subnets, since the owner of all projects hosting in those two subnets may not always following the rules, and cause extra communications to clarify. Ideally, I want to create some firewall rules to block the traffic just using those two IP ranges of subnets. To isolate subnets between each other, I need to create a "deny" firewall rule with source "10.65.0.0/16" and distinction "10.66.0.0/16", and another one with source "10.66.0.0/16" and distinction "10.65.0.0/16". For what I saw, in both egress and ingress firewalls, it's only allowed to set IP ranges on either source or distinction, but cannot be both. It looks there is no way to set both source and distinction in a single firewall using CIDR.
I know using peered network can easily cut the traffic between VPCs/subnets. But there is limitation in VPC, that the routing between 2+ layers of peering are terrible, and resources managed by google already involved a layer of peering, so if possible I don't want to involve another layer of peered network. If there are no better ideas, I probably have to use either Tags or Service accounts to create firewalls one by one.
Please share your ideas, or any other way to resolve my problem.
Thank you
Consulted Google tech support for this question. Their suggestion is no surprise. It can not be done by setting source IP CIDR and distinction CIDR. Their suggestion is using "Tags" + "resource IP ranges".
e.g. - allow all [ingress], Targets tags: vmGroup-1, Source IPv4 : CIDR of vmGroup-1
Basically, going through this way instead of create "deny" firewalls caused by one advantage of VPC, and one limitation of VPC. The advantage is: The advantage is: In VPC the traffic is blocked between any instances naturally, even they are in the same subnet, firewalls are created in VPC but working on each instance individually, it's like each instance has its own firewall. The limitation is: so far, VPC don't allow firewall be created with both source and distinction IP ranges be defined.
My aws instance is stuck and cannot connect using ssh client what should i do?
My hosted websites are also not working. I do not want to restart my aws instance through aws console.
Please help me in this regard.
Thanks in advance.
A recommendation to troubleshoot these kinds of problems
Always generate logs.
Always use a Cloudwatch's agent to retrieve specific logs from your instances.
Check this link to learn more about it: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/send_logs_to_cwl.html
About your problem
I think you tried to connect to it via SSH too many times without closing the previous connections.
Your instance is out of memory, for this situation you must restart your instance.
You could get the last screenshot of your instance using the options from Console.
Follow this link for more information about troubleshooting
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/TroubleshootingInstancesConnecting.html
Some suggestions from that link:
Check your security group rules. You need a security group rule that allows inbound traffic from your public IPv4 address on the proper port.
[EC2-VPC] Check the route table for the subnet. You need a route that sends all traffic destined outside the VPC to the internet gateway for the VPC.
[EC2-VPC] Check the network access control list (ACL) for the subnet. The network ACLs must allow inbound and outbound traffic from your local IP address on the proper port. The default network ACL allows all inbound and outbound traffic.
-If your computer is on a corporate network, ask your network administrator whether the internal firewall allows inbound and outbound traffic from your computer on port 22 (for Linux instances) or port 3389 (for Windows instances).
And more...
If the issue still continues, please create an AMI(image) of the instance and try to create a new instance from that AMI. Then try to SSH and everything went smooth the terminate the old instance.
I am seeking some guidance on the best approach to take with EC2 security groups and services with dynamic IP's. I want to make use of services such as SendGrid, Elastic Cloud etc which all use dyanmic IP's over port 80/443. However access to Port 80/443 is closed with the exception of whitelisted IPs. So far the solutions I have found are:
CRON Job to ping the service, take IP's and update EC2 Security Group via EC2 API.
Create a new EC2 to act as a proxy with port 80/443 open. New server communicates with Sendgrid/ElasticCloud, inspects responses and returns parts to main server.
Are there any other better solutions?
Firstly, please bear in mind that security groups in AWS are stateful, meaning that, for example, if you open ports 80 and 443 to all destinations (0.0.0.0/0) in your outbound rules, your EC2 machines will be able to connect to remote hosts and get the response back even if there are no inbound rules for a given IP.
However, this approach works only if the connection is always initiated by your EC2 instance and remote services are just responding. If you require the connections to your EC2 instances to be initiated from the outside, you do need to specify inbound rules in security group(s). If you know a CIDR block of their public IP addresses, that can solve the problem as you can specify it as a destination in security group rule. If you don't know IP range of the hosts that are going to reach your machines, then access restriction at network level is not feasible and you need to implement some form of authorisation of the requester.
P.S. Please also bear in mind that there is a soft default limit of 50 inbound or outbound rules per security group.
I have 2 AWS instances, i-1 and i-2. They are each on a different security group: sg-1 and sg-2, respectively. Both machines have elastic IPs.
sg-2 is configured to allow all traffic from sg-1, regardless of port, source IP or protocol.
When i-1 tries to talk to i-2 its traffic is being blocked. It seems AWS doesn't account for the fact that i-1's traffic is actually coming from its elastic IP.
Is this expected? Is there anything I can do to work around it, apart from manually adding i-1's elastic IP to sg-2?
sg-2 is configured to allow all traffic from sg-1
When you do this, only traffic from Private IP address is allowed. However, as you as using EIP, you explicitly need to allow traffic from that ip address.
Read this: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=414060
Quoting from above link:
Out of curiosity, are you perhaps connecting using a public IP address? When you use a rule with a security group as the source, it will only match when connecting over the internal network. The private IP address can change though. If you have an Elastic IP associated with the instance, the public DNS name happens to be static and will always resolve to the current private IP address when used from within the same EC2 region. That allows you to easily connect internally without worrying about any address changes.
You haven't really provided enough information to diagnose the problem, but there are a few things to check:
Is I-1 definitely in SG-1? If you've got the instances muddled, the SG rules would be around the wrong way.
Does the machine in SG-2 have a firewall running that might be blocking incoming traffic even though the SG rules are allowing it?
You've tagged this with the VPC tag - do you have any network ACL settings that might be preventing traffic flow? Are the machines private, using a NAT appliance to get out to the Internet, or public, routing through the standard AWS gateway? Can I-1 see the Internet? If you're routing through a NAT, assigning an EIP to a machine effectively cuts it off from the Internet because EIP and NAT are mutually incompatible, and although I haven't tried it this might also screw up SG routing.
Does SG-1 have any egress rules that might be preventing traffic from leaving?
The answer to your question is likely to be found in the resolution of one of these questions if the answer to any of them is 'Yes'.
As previously stated by slayedbylucifer, you will need to explicitly allow traffic from the EIP.
Here's the reasoning from the official AWS documentation about Security Groups:
When you specify a security group as the source for a rule, traffic is allowed from the network interfaces that are associated with the source security group for the specified protocol and port. Incoming traffic is allowed based on the private IP addresses of the network interfaces that are associated with the source security group (and not the public IP or Elastic IP addresses).