We are trying to find out ways to make a JDBC connection to a SQL Server hosted in a private EC2 instance or a private subnet.
Basically, we have an Excel-based small BI report that connects to an On-Prem SQL server and we want to move that DB to cloud and just switch the end points.
There is a lot of information out there about SSH connections to a private subnet RDS SQL server through bastion hosts etc, but I have not found anything related to direct connection.
Due to the infra set up, VPN and direct connect is not possible to use and the users will be directly connecting to private RDS instance over a public internet.
I have not found anything related to direct connection.
Without VPN or Direct Connect, direct connection is not possible. Your RDS is in private subnet, as there is no direct internet connectivity to it - thus the name "private".
If you don't want to use VPN and/or don't have Direct Connect, then the only option is to use ssh tunnel through a bastion host as explained by AWS:
How can I connect to my Amazon RDS DB instance using a bastion host from my Linux/macOS machine?
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we want to our RDS outside VPC openly access, but it is not secure to do so.
Is there any solution to help us connect the RDS securely ?
You have two basic options to access an Amazon RDS database. Which you choose depends on your Risk appetite.
Option 1: RDS database in public subnet
For this option, the database is launched in a Public Subnet, with Publicly Available = Yes.
To secure the database, you would configure the Security Group to only permit inbound access from your IP address.
Option 2: RDS database in private subnet
For this option, the database is launched in a Private Subnet, with Publicly Available = No.
You will need some way to 'connect' to the VPC, and then connect to the RDS database. Options for connecting to the VPC could be:
Create an AWS Client VPN, which allows you to connect to the VPC from any location using an OpenVPN-based VPN client, or
Launch an Amazon EC2 instance in the public subnet and connect to it using SSH and Port Forwarding (See: How to use SSH Tunnel to connect to an RDS instance via an EC2 instance?)
What I'm trying to set up:
Cloud SQL instance with private IP, Postgresql database
A VM with a public IP, but also one private IP on same VPC network as the SQL instance is on (VM, SQL instance and VPC are all in the same region)
VM has a service account with sufficient Cloud SQL client/viewer permissions
Possibility to connect from VM to SQL instance.
What happens?
Any attempt to actually use the connection, from for example psql client or db-migrate, simply hangs - for example psql --host 10.78.0.3 -U gcp-network-issue-demo-staging-db-user gcp-network-issue-demo-staging-database will not prompt for a password, just sit there.
If I remove the VM's public IP address from the setup, it connects fine. However, I need a publicly accessible VM for other services to connect to it..
I assume the psql connection attempt goes through the wrong network interface or something (this may be just my ignorance about network stuff speaking) - how can I get this working? What am I missing?
PS: this is basically same problem as Connecting to Google Cloud SQL instance on private IP from a VM with both private and public IPs fails but commenters there seem to want one Terraform-related and one connection-issue-related question.
Some screenshots:
VM IPs:
DB IPs:
Network config for VM:
Private IP config for DB instance:
This is the setup of the private network:
I don't understand why the private IP of the DB instance (10.78.0.3) is not an IP from the range of the private network (10.2.0.0-10.2.0.24, right?)..? Is that my problem?
To answer your question:
I don't understand why the private IP of the DB instance (10.78.0.3) is not an IP from the range of the private network (10.2.0.0-10.2.0.24, right?)..?
The Cloud SQL instance is assigned an IP address from the allocated range. When you setup a private services access a VPC peering is created between your VPC gcp-network-issue-demo-staging-network and the service producer VPC network that uses the allocated range 10.78.0.0/16
Also, looking at your VM network config, I see that the VM has two Nics in two different VPCs (default and gcp-network-issue-demo-staging-network). In your case, you can use only one Nic.
As a next step, make sure that your VM is using only the VPC network that you have used to create the private connection. Once that done you should be able to connect to the Cloud SQL instance IP using the command bellow:
telnet 10.78.0.3 3306
What am I trying to do?
I want to migrate and automatically replicate data from SQL Server in my on-premises Windows Server to DB in AWS Cloud. I am using AWS DMS (Database Migration Service) for this.
What have I done/tried already?
I have set up a site-to-site VPN (between on-premises network and AWS VPC)
I am able to ping EC2 instance in VPN from Windows Server on-premises
I am able to ping Windows Server on-premises from EC2 instance in VPN
I have created a DMS Replication Instance. Its Private IP is within the allowed VPC CIDR of the VPN connection set already
I am able to ping the Private IP of DMS Replication Instance from EC2 instance
However, I am NOT able to ping the Private IP of DMS Replication Instance from Windows Server on-premises
I have set-up a DB Server in my on-premises Windows Server. I added this DB as a DMS source endpoint. When I tried to test the connection, it failed with the following error message:
I have linked a Security Group to the DMS Replication Instance. This is the same Security Group I used in the VPN connection set up
My DMS source DB endpoint configuration is as follows:
What do I want to know?
Why am I not able to ping the private IP of DMS Replication Instance while I am able to ping an EC2 instance by setting up VPN
Why the DMS endpoint test connection is failing?
Could you help me in doing this DB migration please?
Probably the following debugging method would help you.
As you have mentioned that you are able to ping the EC2 instance private IP from your on-premise network, it was clear that Site-Site VPN is successful.
You did not mention that you created the DMS instance in the same subnet as the other windows instance which you are able to ping from your on-premise network. If you are created DMS in a different subnet please make sure the route table associated with that subnet has route propagation enabled . Then please check in the security groups that in the inbound rules you are allowing the port numbers and IP addresses. This way we can make sure all the things are setup proper in AWS.
From your on-premise sites please make a telnet test with the following command.
Windows/Linux:
Open command prompt in windows or terminal in linux and try
telnet <<DMS IP>> <<Port Number>>
If it is successful connected then you have connectivity between on-premise to DMS host.
If it is not successfully connected or timed out then you need to contact your on-premise network manager or who is in-charge and tell them that you have an issue connecting with AWS Subnet x.x.x.x/x CIDR from on-premise network
I'm trying to create a realistic network setup for a multi-tiered web application. I've created a new VPC within AWS with 1 x public subnet & 2 x private subnet. I then created a Postgres instance within the private subnet and set it to not publicly accessible. This adds an extra layer of security around the database, but how do I then access the database from my local IP?
I created a security group & assigned my IP to the inbound rules & assigned that to the DB instance during creation:
But I still have no way of connecting to it? Do I need to create a VPN and connect to my VPC via the VPN and then connect to the DB instance? Within the proposed architecture, how do you connect to the DB?
What I'm trying to achieve is an architecture which will allow me to create Lambda functions which communicate with the DB via the API Gateway and serve data to a web frontend. So I want the DB protected via the private subnet. But I also want to be able to connect directly to the DB from my local laptop.
At the moment - the RDS instance is running in the VPC, but I don't know how to connect to it. DoI need to set up an Internet Gateway / VPN / EC2 instance and jump to the DB?
You have implemented excellent security by placing the Amazon RDS database into a private subnet. This means it is not accessible from the Internet, which blocks off the majority of potential security threats.
However, it also means that you cannot connect to it from the Internet.
The most common method to achieve your goals is to launch an Amazon EC2 instance in the public subnet and use it as a Bastion or Jump Box:
You SSH into the Bastion
The Bastion can then connect you to other resources within the VPC
Since you merely wish to connect to a database (as opposed to logging into another server), the best method is to use SSH with port forwarding.
In Windows, this can be done using your SSH client -- for example, if you are using PuTTY, you can configure Tunnelling. See: How to Configure an SSH Tunnel on PuTTY
For Mac/Linux, use this command:
ssh -i YOUR-KEYPAIR.pem -L 5555:RDS-ENDPOINT:5432 ec2-user#YOUR-BASTION-SERVER
You then point the SQL client on your laptop to: localhost:5555
The 5555 can be any number you wish. It is merely the "local port" on your own computer that will be used to forward traffic to the remote computer.
The RDS-ENDPOINT is the Endpoint of your RDS database as supplied in the RDS console. It will be similar to: db.cnrffgvaxtw8.us-west-2.rds.amazonaws.com
BASTION-SERVER is the IP address or DNS name of the Jump Box you will use to connect
Then, any traffic sent to localhost:5555 from your SQL client will be automatically sent over the SSH connection to the Bastion/Jump Box, which will then forward it to port 5432 on the RDS database. The traffic will be encrypted across the SSH connection, and establishment of the connection requires an SSH keypair.
I referred a lot of articles and videos to find this answer.
yes, you can connect to rds instances in private subnets
we have two ways to connect
With server: By using ec2 in the public subnet and using it as a bastion host. we can connect to pg admin by ssh tunneling
Serverless: By using client VPN endpoint. create a client VPN endpoint and associate the subnets and allow the internet to the private subnets. and then download the configuration file and install open VPN GUI and import the configuration file and add the keys and then connect the open VPN. Now try to connect to pgadmin, it will connect.
for steps: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rSpA_kCGtwXOTIP2wwHSELf7j9KbXyQ3pVFveNBihv4/edit )
I have gone through AWS VPC(Virtual Private Cloud) where I can have public, Private and VPN-only Subnets.
With this, I want to host a Database in Private or VPN-only subnet.
Now that, Private and VPN-only subnet can not have Internet traffic, I wonder if I can access my database server from remote machine (not an EC2 instance nut any random machine on internet) ?
So All I want to know that, how I can access my Database server from random machine using VPN connection ? So the only users those have VPN connections can access the database server. I want this for development purpose.
Any comments links will be helpful.
Note: I am aware that I can do this with VPN EC2 instance, but I don want to have one and directly connect to Database server from remote machine which has VPN connection.
Thanks
When you create a private VPC, all of the subnets you create within it have internal network access to each other by default in their route tables. However you would need to configure a NAT or Bastion instance within the VPC that is public to act as the gateway to the private database.
The private database would need to have an appropriate security group attached to it to allow it to be accessed by the public machine. See about VPCs and Security Groups here.