is it possible to pass traffic between one resource in private subnet and another one in public subnet?
for example; the caching servers in front of NLB. the NLB is in public subnet and the cache instances are in private subnet with NAT gateway.
All resources within the same AWS VPC can communicate with each other. It doesn't matter if some of them are Public or Private subnets, they can all communicate with each other.
You should use the private IP address to communicate with another resource in the same VPC.
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I have created a vpc, and created two subnets one is public subnet(attached to internet gateway) and another is private subnet. I am able to access private subnet from public subnet. My question is how the traffic goes out from private subnet to public subnet? The private subnet is associated with main route table.
And it has only route to local.
If possible can you please met me know how the traffic goes in route tables(in bound and out bound)?
The public subnet can communicate with the private subnet because the CIDR of the private subnet falls within the local route of the route table associated with the public subnet. Likewise, the private subnet can communicate with the public one because the local route in its route table includes the CIDR of the public subnet.
You can run a little experiment with the VPC reachability analyzer to visualize this. Here's an example which illustrates TCP traffic going from one network interface in a public subnet (associated with the default route table), to a network interface in a private subnet (associated with a custom route table):
and here's what it looks like the other way around:
Both route tables has a route to the target called local. "local" means VPC network. Therefore both subnets can communicate within the VPC network. The "VPC Route tables" guide explains these concepts.
Each VPC in AWS has an implicit router. You can configure this router by creating Route Tables. You define Routes in these Route Tables.
Assuming that both of your private and public subnets are part of the same VPC, the traffic between them goes through this implicit router.
What is the difference between private and public subnets?
Some or all of the resources which are part of a public subnet may be reachable from the internet. No resource from the private subnet should be reachable from the internet directly. This does not mean, that private subnets can not have internet access. They can have internet access with a help of a NAT gateway deployed in a public subnet.
Some explanation for the routes from your diagram:
local route: the default route for a Route Table, makes possible the local traffic to be routed internally in the VPC;
igw-id route: this route makes possible the communication with resources outside if the VPC. Since it has a lower priority than the local route, every destination address which falls outside of the VPC CIDR is routed to the Internet Gateway.
I have instances in private subnet connected to a load balancer. NAT gateway is available in public subnet (to provide internet to private subnet). How can we route traffic from route53 to instance in private subnet.
You have to setup application or network load balancers in a public subnet. Then you point your Route53 to your LB, which will in turn direct traffic to your instances in the private subnets.
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.
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
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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 a public subnet in AWS and I have 3 instances in it ...
WebApp01 (Elastic IP - 54.23.61.239 for example)
WebApp02 (Private IP - 192.168.0.24)
WebApp03 (Private IP - 192.168.0.25)
And my route table is setup as
192.168.0.0/16 -> local
0.0.0.0/0 -> Internet Gateway
I can see that the instance that has the public IP has internet access but the instances that don't have public IP are not able to access the internet.
How can I give internet access to the other instances inside the Public Subnet ?
I'm a newbie in networking and any help will be appreciated.
Just FYI : I know that creating a NAT, and then creating a separate route table with 0.0.0.0 -> NAT and associating that route with the Private Subnet gives internet access to the instances in the private subnet, but I cant figure out how to give internet access to the non public IP instances in the public subnet. Please help !
You will need to assign public IP addresses to your instances that do not have one or add an EIP in order for them to access the Internet.
An AWS Internet Gateway is a special type of NAT Gateway (1 - 1 address mapping). Without a public IP address there is nothing for the Internet Gateway to map to the EC2 instance - one public IP maps to one private IP inside the Internet Gateway.
Although you add a NAT Gateway to a public subnet with an Internet Gateway,
the NAT Gateway does provide address translation (NAT) to instances in the public subnet - only to instances in the private subnets. The default route in each private subnet points to the NAT Gateway.
If you want these instances to be protected by only having private IP addresses then you will need to move the instances to a private subnet (one with a NAT Gateway).
An instance in a public subnet without a public IP address is orphaned from the Internet. The instance can talk to other instances in the VPC (the Intranet) but cannot talk to the Internet.
There is a lot of confusion on what are AWS VPC subnets. There are three types. 1) Public subnet (one that has an IGW). 2) Private subnet (one that has a NAT Gateway or NAT instance, or neither). 3) Hybrid (one that has a VGW routing to a data center or similar).