I made a Django app and deployed it on Elastic Beanstalk. I made a Postgres DB with RDS as well. I want to add both of these to a VPC.
I created the VPC using the VPC wizard (VPC with Public and Private Subnets): which created, as the name suggests, one public and one private VPC.
I was told here that I need to add a second private subnet for RDS. Now I have:
1 public subnet (10.0.0.0/24)
2 private subnets (10.0.1.0/24 and 10.0.10.0/24)
I also know that from here that I needed to "modify the route table of the new private subnet to point to the NAT gateway". However, I am not sure what that means. Right now, here is what my route tables look like:
One for the public subnet
One for the private subnet (main)
Also, after configuring this, what do I need to do to add my RDS to this? Should I just make a subnet group with these 2 private subnets and set it when configuring the RDS? I think I know how to do EBS using CLI.
Please let me know if you need any more information! Thanks!
For the private subnets your route tables should point 0.0.0.0/0 to NAT gateway, as shown on the screenshot:
Example SG for RDS for testing:
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I want to set up a VPC for my Elastic Beanstalk web app and RDS postgres db. I tried creating a VPC but ran into problems:
I went to VPC on AWS -> Launch VPC Wizard -> VPC with Public and Private Subnets. I am not sure what configurations to use. For example, what should I set Elastic IP Allocation ID? Do I need to set the VPC name?
After I create this, am I ready to just add it in EBS and RDS, or is there something else I need to do? Thanks!
Do I need to set the VPC name?
Its optional, but you can use, e.g. MyVPCforEB or what you want. It easier to find your vpc by name, than by cryptic vpc-id.
what should I set Elastic IP Allocation ID
You have to create EIP first. Its done in VPC -> Elastic IP addresses menu. This is required for NAT gateway, so that instances in private subnet can access the internet.
After I create this, am I ready to just add it in EBS and RDS, or is there something else I need to do?
Not really. To do it properly, you would need to add one more private subnet. The VPC wizard will create only one private subnet. For RDS, to create a subnet group, you need to have at least two private subnets in different Availability Zones.
Thus, once you have two private subnets in two different AZs, then you can create new Subnet Group in RDS with the subnets. Having this, you can create the RDS in these two subnets.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Initially we had 3 subnets in our AWS VPC. The VPC has an IGW and one default route table with 2 routes - 1 for internal and 0.0.0.0/0 to IGW. A standard initial VPC setup.
Within the VPC we have an RDS instance, with an RDS proxy, and the DB is set for public access while we develop the solution. The DB is associated with the default VPC SG along with a specific SG that whitelists IP addresses for DB connectivity via the public endpoint.
Also within the VPC we have a Lambda that is using the default VPC security group and the 3 subnets mentioned above.
The Lambda can connect to the RDS proxy, and we can connect to the RDS public endpoint via a whitelisted IP - This is as expected.
The Issue:
Now we need to provide the Lambda with internet access (it needs to connect with RedisLabs). To do this we've added:
A public subnet (subnet-00245f33edbae3358)
A NAT on the public subnet
Created a route table associated with the existing 3 private subnets (subnet-06d1124e, subnet-ba82bce1, subnet-3344b955) with a route of 0.0.0.0/0 -> NAT
Created a route table associated with the new public subnet (subnet-00245f33edbae3358) with a route of 0.0.0.0/0 -> IGW
With this is place the Lambda can still access the DB via the RDS proxy (expected) and can now access the internet (expected), BUT we lose connection to the DB via the public facing endpoint.
Is there something missing in the configuration that will allow Lambda access to the RDS and internet AND will also allow us access to RDS via the public endpoint? OR do we need an SSH tunnel within the public subnet to do this?
Thanks in advance!
Additional Info:
The RDS currently has the following SG's:
- prod-auth-service-rds - allows TCP 3306 from my whitelisted IP
- sg-11cb746b (default) - All traffic with, self referencing source (sg-11cb746b)
The RDS is on subnets:
- subnet-06d1124e - existing private subnet
- subnet-ba82bce1 - existing private subnet
- subnet-3344b955 - existing private subnet
The NAT is on subnet subnet-00245f33edbae3358
EDIT: Reread your response, if your RDS DB is on private subnets, then it can’t be publicly accessible regardless of of what you set as that option in the DB’s settings.
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After looking at the additional info, I believe the problem is your security group for the RDS. It only allows traffic from things in your default security group or your personal whitelisted IP.
Even though the lambda is in your default security group, RDS does see traffic as coming from your Lambda, they see it as coming from the NAT Gataway which doesn’t have and security groups.
You can solve this by adding the EIP of your NAT Gateway as an additional whitelisted IP to your inbound rules of the RDS SG.
It turns out that all I needed to do was create the Lambda in a private subnet(s) separate to the existing RDS subnets. The separate subnet(s) then need a route that forwards 0.0.0.0/0 to NAT.
The Lambda now has outbout internet access and RDS access, while the RDS instance can still be reached via its existing public endpoint.
I have a custom VPC which has 6 public subnets in 6 AZs.
When I tried to create Aurora Serverless, I do see my VPC in the VPC dropdown but there is only 1 item 'Create new DB subnet group'.
I'm expecting my VPC has available subnet groups already.
I have researched a lot already, even compare another VPC (which is working) with my VPC, I don't see anything differences from VPC to Subnet to RouteTable to Security Group ...
Please advice.
You need to bundle the subnets you want to use on your instance on a db subnet group, you can't add the subnets directly.
It is very easy, as seeing here.
I have configured lots of time, when my instance is in public subnet, I can distribute ELB traffic to them but instances in private subnet, it goes out of service. I had configure perfect SG between ELB to private instances and for ELB. Also added public subnet in ELB as same AZ where my private instances existing. I have done everything as per below URLs.
Amazon ELB for EC2 instances in private subnet in VPC
https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/public-load-balancer-private-ec2/
As per first URLs, we don't require NAT in public subnet if we don't require to access any other service from private instances, "havak5" and "been Whaley" also commented afor same, still some websites tell that in this scenario, we need NAT gateway or instance in public subset for return traffic.
http://thebluenode.com/exposing-private-ec2-instances-behind-public-elastic-load-balancer-elb-aws
I had tried as per AWS URLs mention above but not work. So can any one tell me that really how this scenario work?
You can refer the following link from aws to understand use of NAT:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_NAT_Instance.html
If we want to make any kind of interaction with instances placed in private subnet we should use NAT
How to create Private and Public subnets in GCP? It is not same as AWS.
In GCP tags decides whether a subnet is private or public.
For public network create routes in VPC section and select the next-hop to Default Internet gateway
For private network create routes in VPC section and select the next-hop to specify and instance and select the nat instance
When create VM , you can change external IP to none.
This will requir NAT / LB to expose services and something like bastion server to login.
Though it's been a while since this was posted but thought to post this anyway as I ran into the same issue. I was doing a GCP-based lab challenge with an instruction to make a VPC private but I couldn't figure it out until I found this statement from an AWS doc located here.
If your subnet is associated with a route table that has a route to an >internet gateway, it's known as a public subnet.
In GCP you will need to remove the default route for internet access to make the VPC private. To make machines in the VPC gain internet access to download updates for example, you will need to create a cloud NAT gateway with cloud router