I have an issue regarding to AWS VPC networking, I want to access external API from my ECS task, I've configured ECS in a Private subnet and the only way to access this ECS is trough an load balancer, in some services like Lambda is working (I can access external resources) but in ECS I can't access to them, I tried modifying the security group rules + modify ACL rules but isn't working, If anyone know how I can do, I be very grateful, thanks.
ps: I created the VPC on the UI that AWS has.
For resources in a private subnet to access the Internet, the only option is to send that traffic through a NAT Gateway.
You will have to create an AWS NAT Gateway in at least one of the public subnets of your VPC, and then add a route in each of the private subnets to that NAT Gateway.
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I'm wanting to establish connectivity to an RDS instance from some Lambda functions. Lambda functions are autodeployed with serverless framework, so ideally my config would be dynamic. I am currently managing infrastructure with CDK, and have the following resources:
1. RDS on Private Isolated subnet in VPC A, managed by CDK
2. EC2 instance on public subnet in VPC A, managed by CDK (For access to the RDS from the wider internet)
3. (Backend) 4 Lambdas without a VPC, behind an API Gateway in default VPC, managed by serverless deploy
4. Frontend hosted on S3 behind Cloudfront, managed by serverless deploy
I can deploy the lambdas to VPC A to either the private isolated or public subnets.
Additional constraints:
Lambdas require outbound connectivity, but should be protected from inbound internet requests from public internet.
I'm a bit stumped because I don't want to update my CDK script whenever the lambdas change. Help is much appreciated.
Your lambda functions need to be in the same VPC as the database, specifically in a private subnet.
You would then adjust the security group rules to allow connectivity from the functions to the DB using something like myFynction.connections.allowToDefaultPort(myDatabaseInstance);
The VPC needs to have a NAT gateway for the lambda functions to be able to access the internet. To clarify - the functions cannot be in an isolated subnet, because isolated subnets don't have Internet connectivity. Placing the functions in a public subnet will not work either - refer to this for an explanation.
Relevant documentation: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/connect-lambda-to-an-rds-instance/
I recently turned my two AWS public subnets into private subnets and added a public subnet that's got a NAT gateway. The private subnet routing table routs traffic to the NAT gateway and the public one routs it to the Internet Gateway. However, it isn't working and I don't get response to my API calls.
I think this is due to the fact that my VPC endpoint has the two private subnets associated with it instead of the public subnet. I tried to change the associated private subnets to the public one but got the AWS error:
Error modifying subnets
Can't change subnets of a requester-managed endpoint for the service ...
What would be the way to get around this error and add my public subnet to the VPC endpoint?
Additional info: Each private subnet has an EC2 auto-scaling group instance and a serverless aurora DB instance in it.
Cheers, Kris
I also had this annoying problem. The error messages are not really helpful here. They do not reveal which service exactly created those interfaces. So I went to Cloudtrail, listed all events, and searched for the VPC Endpoint name (vpce-1234567890xxx) that refused to be deleted to find out who created it. In my case, it turned out to be the RDS proxy service. So I went to RDS and deleted the proxy.
Since it is requester-managed VPC endpoint:
You cannot modify or detach a requester-managed network interface.
This means that you have to delete the resource that created the endpoint in the first place:
If you delete the resource that the network interface represents, the AWS service detaches and deletes the network interface for you.
I am going to build a Lambda and a RDS aurora for my application. The RDS aurora needs to be inside a VPC and it doesn't need internet access. I have read a lot articles about VPC setup for database and all of them mentioned that need to create VPC, public/private subnets, route table, NAT gateway and internet gateway.
However, in my case, I don't need internet access in the database VPC. So my question is do I need NAT gateway and route table at all? I know each VPC has a default route table, is the default route table good enough? If I just create a VPC with 3 private subnets and attach the VPC to my lambda. Does it work?
Your understanding is correct and you don't need any NAT.
NAT is specifically used for accessing public internet from private subnet, but it doesn't seem to be required here.
Just make sure your Lambda doesn't need to access any external entity or AWS Service as well (Like S3). If you are required to access an AWS Service, you may create a VPC Endpoint for it. (Linked example is for S3)
I would like to create a lambda(vpc) which would access resources in vpc and make a request to services(REST API) via public application load balancer. I found out that vpc end point is better solution than creating a nat gateway.
I have created a vpc endpoint for elasticloadbalancing(by following steps at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/vpce-interface.html#create-interface-endpoint) and given full access in the policy. I could not find how to access it from the lambda, what would be the URL to make the request?
Edit:
Thanks to John for the info that vpc endpoint is used to connect to ELB API. So Vpc endpoint would not solve our issue.
We have our infra in vpc which includes database(accessible within vpc only) and application servers running behind the ELB. For certain tasks we want to run lambda which will read database(for this reason lambda has to be inside vpc) and make API calls to our application using ELB. Since ELB is accessible from public dns only, lambda is not able to connect to ELB.
I have read that setting up NAT gateway is a solution. Are there other is simpler ways?
Yes, a NAT Gateway would allow the traffic from a private subnet to go out of the VPC and come back in to the Load Balancer's public IP addresses (via its Public DNS Name).
Alternatively, you could create an additional Internal Load Balancer that could accept traffic from within the VPC and send it to the Amazon EC2 instances.
I have a private subnet inside a VPC, that cannot route to the internet. I'm trying to access amazon ECR, but getting a timeout. My guess is that ECR requires internet connection, however I cannot find any documentation that says that.
Does ECR require internet connection? Is there a way to use it from within a private subnet?
Update 2020
Interface VPC Endpoints are now supported for ECR; meaning now we can configure an endpoint from our private subnet to ECR without a NAT Gateway and still be able to pull images from it.
Documentation: Amazon ECS interface VPC endpoints (AWS PrivateLink)
A private subnet is truly private and only in/out traffic that you specify will be allowed. S3 has VPC Endpoints that allow you to connect to S3 (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/vpc-endpoints.html) without routing through the public internet. VPC endpoint functionality for AWS ECR has been requested (https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=222124) but to the best of my knowledge it is not yet currently available.
An VPC endpoint for ECR is not available, but requested as the first issue on AWS' container roadmap (created 2018-11-28), implemented as a PrivateLink.
It's in state "Coming soon".
It will cost minimum around 22$/month (PrivateLink costs for 3 availability zones in us-east, without traffic costs), if they don't state it otherwise.