NETWORK:
I have a private subnet and a public subnet. A VPC with IG attached. There is a NAT Gateway in the public subnet. I also have 2 route table, the public route table routes everything to the IG, the private route table routes everything to the NAT Gateway.
EC2:
My EC2 Windows instance is in the private subnet with a EIP and a Public DNS. It has a security group that allows all fron internet inbound/outbound but i cant even ping neither rdp
All the machine or instances in the private subnet cannot be connected externally hence the name private subnet. If you want to connect to your instance externally you must place it in the public subnet (the subnet that is connected to the internet gateway). Eventhough, you attach an elastic ip (which is a public ip) but it is routed through a NAT. The EIP must go through the internet gateway only.
If you really want to connect you need to VPN to your VPC (using AWS VPC VPN) and then RDP to your instance. Or have a gate instance in your public subnet.
Verify that the route table for the subnet has a route that sends all traffic destined outside the VPC to the internet gateway for the VPC. For more information, see Creating a Custom Route Table (Internet Gateways) in the Amazon VPC User Guide.
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I have created a VPC and internet gate way. And attached internet gateway to the vpc. Create two subnets one is public subnet and another is private subnet. And created a route table to route the traffic. In route table added a route rule 0.0.0.0/0 to IGW(internet gatway). To test this I launch a EC2 instance in public subnet. I have generated a public IP address example : (554.6.8.24). Using that IP address do ssh and I am connecting from local machine to EC2 instance.
My question is I am connecting to the EC2 instance from my local machine using public IP. What is the point of adding route rule in 0.0.0.0/0 to IGW(internet gatway) in route table?. With out route rule can I connect to Ec2?
If an Internet Gateway is not present in an Amazon VPC, then that VPC has no connection to the Internet. This can be very useful for creating private networks.
If you want to connect a VPC to the Internet, then you need to:
Create an Internet Gateway for that VPC
Create a Route Table that sends traffic to the Internet Gateway
Attach the Route Table to a Subnet (thereby making that subnet a Public Subnet since it routes to the Internet Gateway)
Put resources inside the Public Subnet (eg EC2 instances)
In contrast, Private subnets do not have a Route Table entry that points to an Internet Gateway. Therefore, those subnets cannot access the Internet. This is an added layer of security to prevent access to private resources.
The only difference between a Public Subnet and a Private Subnet is having the Route Table entry that points to an Internet Gateway. Without that entry, a subnet will remain private.
I need to migrate a big cluster of VMs to AWS. Some of these have Public IPs, others only local IPs. Is it possible to create mixed subnetwork of Public and Private IPs within a VPC such that instances with a Public IP access the Internet via an Elastic IP and the Internet Gateway and such that instances that don't have a Public IP go to the Internet over NAT. The local IP instances must be in a single subnetwork such as 192.168.1.0/24.
Is it possible how to do this? and what would be an optimal approach?
By definition, a public subnet has a route to an Internet Gateway. Anything in that subnet that needs to access the Internet will need a public IP (not necessarily an Elastic IP, just a public IP) assigned to it.
If a subnet's traffic is routed to an internet gateway, the subnet is known as a public subnet.
Similarly, by definition a private subnet is a subnet without an Internet Gateway, which relies on route to a NAT Gateway to access the Internet.
If a subnet doesn't have a route to the internet gateway, the subnet
is known as a private subnet.
Per your question, no, there's no way to have a single route table that routes traffic to both an Internet Gateway and a NAT Gateway based on the presence or lack of a public IP address on the source server.
I have a vpc with 2 private and 2 public subnets. I have added ec2 instance in a public subnet.
The EC2 is given a private ip according to CIDR of VPN and public subnet.
Route table contains a row of 0.0.0.0/0 with internet gateway
the public subnet is associated with this route table.
EC2 is also healthy
I am unable to troubleshoot how to ssh to my instance.
I am new to VPC and this is my first time working with my own so I might have missed something.
Inbound rules on sg
inbound rules on NACL
Several things to check:
Make sure the EC2 has a public IP assigned (enable auto-assign IPv4 address on the public subnet)
NACL outbound rule allows your IP/ any IP to port 22/ any port since NACLs are stateless
The internet gateway is attached to the correct VPC
The subnet is associated with the correct route table that has internet gateway
The EC2 is provisioned under the correct public subnet that is associated with the route table
The SG that allows port 22 inbound is attached to the EC2
Hope you are all doing good.
AWS allows us to attach a private subnet (created in a Customer VPC) with a route table having route to the internet via internet gateway. Does it make any difference to the instance launched in the private sub-net? or it is as good as having the private subnet not linked to the route table having route to the internet
Regards
AJ
A subnet is not private if it has routes to/from the internet. The instances launched in a private subnet cannot access the internet and cannot be reached from the internet.
For e.g if you have a database instance and you don't want anyone but the instances to access the instance, you can launch the instance in the private subnets.
Also if you want the instances in the private subnet to access internet, you need to setup a Nat Gateway (or a Nat Instance)
Hope this helps
First, we need to know what's the difference between a public subnet and a private subnet.
Public Subnet means this subnet has an Internet Gateway attached to it.
Private Subnet means this subnet has a NAT Gateway attached to it.
And the Internet Gateway can have both inbound and outbound but the NAT only can have outbound to the Internet.
And A NAT will be built in a public subnet but attach to a private subnet.
You can have lots of public/private subnets at the same time and attached NAT or IGW for them, but the IGW only can have one in each VPC.
In some use cases, we will not attach any kinds of NAT and IGW for a subnet. that's because it might be a database subnet and won't expect it to communicate with the Internet.
Normally, we will use a subnet with NAT attached for our application such as EC2 or ECS, Internal Load Balancers.
On the other hand, we will use a subnet with IGW attached for Internet-facing Load balancers, Nginx, Apache.
AWS VPC Design:
https://aws.amazon.com/tw/answers/networking/aws-single-vpc-design/
I think the hidden magic here is that the instance in the private subnet needs a public IP to communicate with outside, we never ever think this an issue in our lives. When our computer connect to the router, it get access to internet without any issue, why it works so smoothly? All because the router handles everything for us, including allocating a private IP for us, making recursively DNS query for us, and the most important, translating the private IP using the router's public IP so that our computer can communicate with the outside bidirectionally.
Let's go back to this AWS VPC scenario, you attached a route table with a default route to the Internet Gateway to your private subnet, which makes it looks like a public subnet. However, the instances still have no public IPs, and, not like our router, the Internet Gateway of AWS VPC doesn't do NAT works! So how can an instance with no public IP and no NAT access the internet? It's impossible.
I have an AWS lambda function (Django zappa) that is running inside a VPC thus I'm not able to send emails because Lambda isn't connected to the internet, I tried NAT Gatway but with no hope.
I created a NAT Gatway using one public subnet of the VPC.
Created another private subnet with a route table that routes 0.0.0.0/0 to the NAT Gateway.
I would appreciate any help.
Go to VPC Dashboard and use the Launch VPC Dashboard
Create (Allocate) an elastic IP address and keep it handy. Select the option VPC with Public and Private Subnets
Configure the subnet CIDRs and associate the elastic IP created in the previous step in the form. This will create a NAT Gateway and set it up automatically with correct route tables.
Things to note:
NAT Gateway should always be in the public subnet.
Route table of Private Subnet should have a route 0.0.0.0/0 to NAT Gateway
Route table of Public Subnet should have a route 0.0.0.0/0 to Internet Gateway
Lambda function should be configured with the Private Subnet and not the Public Subnet
Security Group configured in the lambda function should allow outbound to 0.0.0.0/0 (which is there by default, but you should verify)