I am creating a staging env using AWS and i want it to be accessible through VPN only.
The env was created using Fargate.
I have:
1 front lb connected to several front tasks.
1 back lb connected to several back tasks.
I created the VPN client endpoint.
I can connect to the VPN and ssh to instances in the same security group as my front and back lb. (I tried to start an ec2 instance with the same security group and it works).
But for some reason i am unable to connect to the albs using their dns name or the name used in the route 53 record.
Did i miss something that should be configured for dns to work on aws ressources through the VPN?
I hope this was detailed enough, Thanks in advance.
It sounds like you created a public, Internet-facing ALB. For the ALB to work internally in the VPC (and only in the VPC), you need to create an internal ALB.
See the "Scheme" setting in the documentation.
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I am trying to connect to an RDS Instance from my local machine through a VPC Peering connection. In my AWS Account I have two VPCs: VPC1 is connected to my local network via DirectConnect, VPC2 isn't. VPC2 contains all of my infrastructure and the idea is that if I want to connect to that infrastructure from my local machine I need to work through VPC1.
I have configured a route in the peering connection to forward IP based requests to VPC2 for a given address range. This doesn't really help me for RDS though because I don't know what the IP Address for RDS is, only the endpoint. I am guessing that there is some combination of DNS/Routing/Networking/Peering that will solve this problem but I haven't found any documentation that describes how to solve this issue.
Has anyone solved this issue before, or know of any documentation that describes what needs to be done?
Update:
The exact problem is that I can't connect to the RDS instance from my local machine. For example, if I use the RDS Endpoint as the server for my connection, the Sql Client I am using simply can't connect with a timeout error. My suspicion is that traffic is not being routed to VPC2 correctly but I don't know how to prove that.
As far as DNS goes, I am not sure how OnPrem is setup however I have 4 hosted zones in Route53 with a variety of URLs. Items that I setup in Route53 I am able to resolve by host name on my local.
Likewise, I am not sure how the network has been configured with DirectConnect (full VPN tunnel or otherwise).
As far as DNS and the network connections between AWS go though, that stuff works. I am able to resolve pieces of infrastructure in VPC1 fine I just (seemingly) can't get traffic to move across the Peering Connection in the way that I would expect.
I think the problem is that you think you can access vpc2 resources from on-prem just b/c you have direct connect to vpc1. What vpc-peering is giving you is access from vpc1 to vpc2 via private ip addresses. In your case you want vpc1 to act like a router to just transit your request from on-prem to vpc2. It does not work that way.
What are your options:
You could have a host vpc1 access vpc2 (like a bastion host) and you could ssh into that one first.
If possible, you can create a vpn connection from on-prem to vpc2.
And there are more complex solutions via transit gateway.
The doc here talks about vpc-peering limitations, it will basically explain that transitive connections like you want won't work: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/peering/vpc-peering-basics.html
AWS scenario documentation to reach db mentions option 1 here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_VPC.Scenarios.html
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I think VPC1 and VPC2 cannot communicate even if you configure routing. So as long as communication is impossible, configuring DNS will not accomplish the goal, I guess.
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VPC Peering provides peering, not routing between multiple VPCs, so if you are peering 3 or more VPCs or connecting to locations outside of AWS via VPN or DirectConnect, even if you set the Routing Table appropriately for each, there will be no IP layer routing to networks more than 2 hops away. Even if you configure the Routing Table appropriately, there will be no IP layer routing to networks more than 2 hops away. Workarounds such as using proxies or stepping stones are required as before.
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AWS-40_AWS_Summit_Online_2020_NET01.pdf
Along the example on page 42:
local network --> Direct Connect --> VPC Endpoint (in VPC1) --> NLB (in VPC2) --> RDS (in VPC2)
I am fairly new to AWS and I'm setting up an app on AWS that uses WebSockets.
I have an ECS Cluster sitting on an EC2 Instance in AWS. I can externally ping my instance and I can connect to it via plain ws:// however, I cannot connect to it through wss://.
I have allowed All Traffic (Plus all TCP) from Anywhere on my Security Group and Network ACL.
I have also set up an SSL certificate and set up an A record to point the domain to my instances public IP address in Route 53.
I had read a bit about load balancers and I've tried setting one up to get it working however this didn't work either.
Is there any way to achieve this without a Load Balancer?
I know I am probably missing something simple, however, I can't find any straight forward information on setting up wss:// on AWS.
If anyone could walk me through the steps or point me to some applicable instructions that would be greatly appreciated!
Let me know if you need more information.
Thanks
Here are my Security Group Rules:
Say I have an AWS ec2 instance that is running a python application on a certain port say 8000. Also imagine I have a domain name say www.abcd.com that I own. What does it take to make my website use https and securely redirect to the app on my ec2 that is listening on port 8000? Is this even possible to do or do I need something like nginx in between?
Firstly you will need to ensure that your EC2 is in a public subnet with a public IP, it will also need its security group open on whatever port you are hitting it on (8000). At this point you should be able to hit your application on public ip:port.
Now if you want to do the above while using a domain you will want to use AWS's Route 53 service. From this you can create a DNS routing using your domain. You will want to create a route from: application.example.com to your instances public ip. After doing so you should be able to visit: application.example.com and hit your application. In doing the following it is possible now to make your EC2 instance private.
Now if you wish to include HTTPS ontop of this, the best way would be to create a public load balancer with a certificate attached, this would accept HTTPS traffic from your user, then forward that traffic over HTTP to your EC2 on a selected port (8000).
After doing this you will want to change your Route53 entry to point to your load balancer instead of directly at your EC2.
Yes, it is totally possible.
Here is step wise procedure to do it :-
you need to create hosted zone on Route-53 services of amazon
Then it use ns to connect with your domain ( wherever you have registered)
Then you need to connect your ec2 instance ip with your hosted zone
Now you can access your ec2 instances using this domain, but it will be not https
For https, you need certificate, which you can avail from aws certificate-manager
After obtaining the certificate, Follow the steps from this blog How to set up HTTPS for your domain on AWS.
NOTE:- This is just uber point, follow it and look for more insight to how you exactly do it in your case. I followed this step while deploying using elastic-beanstalk.
Background: I have a kubernetes cluster set up in one AWS account that needs to access data in an RDS MySQL instance in a different account and I can't seem to get the settings correct to allow traffic to flow.
What I've tried so far:
Setup a peering connection between the two VPCs. They are in the same region, us-east-1.
Created Route table entries in each account to point traffic on the corresponding subnet to the peering connection.
Created a security group in the RDS VPC to allow traffic from the kubernetes subnets to access MySql.
Made sure DNS Resolution is enabled on both VPC's.
Kubernetes VPC details (Requester)
This contains 3 EC2's (looks like each has its own subnet) that house my kubernetes cluster. I used EKS to set this up.
The route table rules I set up have the 3 subnets associated, and point the RDS VPC CIDR block at the peering connection.
RDS VPC details (Accepter)
This VPC contains the mysql RDS instance, as well as some other resources. The RDS instance has quite a few VPC security groups assigned to it for access from our office IP's etc. It has Public Accessibility set to true.
I repeated the route table setup (in reverse) and pointed back to the K8s VPC subnet / peering connection.
Testing
To test the connection, I've tried 2 different ways. The application that needs to access mysql is written in node, so I just wrote a test connector and example query and it times out.
I also tried netcat from a terminal in the pod running in the kubernetes cluster.
nc -v {{myclustername}}.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com 3306
Which also times out. It seems to be trying to hit the correct mysql instance IP though so I'm not sure if that means my routing rules are working right from the k8s vpc side.
DNS fwd/rev mismatch: ec2-XXX.compute-1.amazonaws.com != ip-{{IP OF MY MYSQL}}.ec2.internal
I'm not sure what steps to take next. Any direction would be greatly appreciated.
Side Note: I've read thru this Kubernetes container connection to RDS instance in separate VPC
I think I understand what's going on there. My CIDR blocks do not conflict with the default K8s ips (10.0...) so my problem seems to be different.
I know this was asked a long time ago, but I just ran into this problem as well.
It turns out I was editing the wrong AWS routing table! When I ran kops to create my cluster, it created a new VPC with its own routing table but also another routing table! I needed to add the peer connection route to the cluster's routing table instead of the VPC's Main routing table.
I've read through all the white papers for Route53, Private Hosted Zones, and Workspaces and I'm too the point of banging my head on the wall. :p
I'm having trouble getting an EC2 instance and an Amazon Workspace within a private cloud to communicate using a Fully Qualified Domain Name. I need them to communicate with a FQDN instead of an IP address so that I can have an encrypted connection with an SSL.
Here is my configuration:
Setup a VPC with two public subnets, a route table, and internet gateway.
VPC is setup with DNSResolution and DNSHostnames enabled.
Setup a Simple AD for the workspace within the private VPC.
Setup an EC2 instance within the private VPC with a public subnet.
Setup the EC2 instance with a security group that allows port 80,443, and 5003 open to 0.0.0.0/0.
Setup a workspace within the private VPC with no security group.
Disabled the firewall within the EC2 instance and Workspace.
Setup a Hosted Zone on Route53 configured for Private and linked to the VPC.
Setup an A Record pointing the private IP of the EC2 instance.
If I run a ping from the Workspace to the DNS record that was setup in Route53, I get a successful connection.
If I try to reach the EC2 server using a Web browser on Port 80 or Port 443 using the DNS record, it fails.
If I try to reach the Ec2 server using an application that runs on Port 5003 using the DNS record, it fails.
If I try to reach the EC2 server with either web browser or application by referencing the IP, it is successful. So I know that my ports aren't being blocked.
Did I configure the route53 record incorrectly or am I missing a particular IAM Role permission set?
Thanks and let me know if I need to elaborate on any of the configuration.
SimpleAD DNS is being used instead of Route53. If the zone is the same then only one or the other can be used I'm afraid.
For example if you have host.com DNS zone in SimpleAD then the workspace won't use R53 for any *.host.com resolution. Try a different private zone in R53 and therefore fqdn for the EC2 instance private IP address.
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=215126