I want to have different VPC for dev/test/prod and one separate VPC for share services like jenkins. I'll use VPC peering between the Shared Services VPC and each of the environments VPCs
Each environment will have its own RDS instance.
RDS setup has this option about instance public accesibily, and I'm confused about the "No EC2 instance or devices outside of the VPC will be able to connect" statement.
If I choose "no" will I still be able to connect to the dev RDS instance from the shared services VPC by using VPC peering?
Yes you will be able to access from your 'shared services' VPC if you've peered the two VPCs.
Be sure to follow the VPC peering guide. The biggest thing is to make sure the CIDR block ranges do not overlap and you'll have to set the security groups on each RDS instance to allow traffic from the Jenkins instance in the 'shared services' VPC
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I understand VPC Peering is used to establish connection between 2 VPCs. And to connect to another Application/Service in another VPC, VPC Endpoint Service is used. But can't a VPC Endpoint Service be connected via VPC peering?
A use-case/scenario will help
You can find a lot of info on VPC peering here:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/de_de/vpc/latest/peering/what-is-vpc-peering.html
It is, like you already said - a (network) connection of two VPCs.
A VPC Endpoint gives you some more options - you could say it is build on top of the VPC peering idea.
Here is a short articel about it:
https://catalog.workshops.aws/networking/en-US/intermediate/5-vpc-endpoint-services/10-vpc-endpoint-services-overview
It also menntions some use cases, like
Application in a VPC that has no VPN or TGW access to other VPCS.
Application in a VPC which has overlapping IP addresses with the VPC you want to share it with
Sharing an application with external consumers in other AWS accounts (even via MarketPlace)
Limit the firewall rules for access to an on premise application by using Privatelink as a single point of access for all VPCs in a region
Just created an VPC for EKS Cluster and started RDS PostgreSQL instance with custom VPC.
Custom VPC has Subnets.
My Custom VPC has Internet Gateway attached.
EKS and RDS is in same VPC so they have internal communication.
My problem is that i want to connect to RDS from my local machine and i am unable. Regarding the problem i have created a new Security Group with Inbound Rules for PostgreSQL.
PostgreSQL TCP 5432 0.0.0.0/0 –
Im still unable to connect
UPDATE
RDS is Publicly accessible
Security group allows access to RDS
In order to connect to RDS instances from the internet you need to do these 3 things
Deploy your RDS instance in a "public" subnet. This means the subnet must have an Internet Gateway attached to it so it can respond properly to outbound requests
In your RDS instance under Connectivity, extend the Additional configuration section, and then choose Publicly accessible.
Make sure the security group allows access to your RDS instance.
Note: exposing a database to public access is not secure. What I recommend you to do is create a proxy with haproxy or a VPN.
To be able to connect to the RDS database remotely you need to select "yes" option for the "Public Accessibility" setting for you database. Here are some additional configurations that need to be taken into account (form AWS docs):
If you want your DB instance in the VPC to be publicly accessible, you
must enable the VPC attributes DNS hostnames and DNS resolution.
Your VPC must have a VPC security group that allows access to the DB
instance.
The CIDR blocks in each of your subnets must be large enough to
accommodate spare IP addresses for Amazon RDS to use during
maintenance activities, including failover and compute scaling.
Best,
Stefan
I have production stacks inside a Production account and development stacks inside a Development account. The stacks are identical and are setup as follows:
Each stack as its own VPC.
Within the VPC are two public subnets spanning to AZs and two private subnets spanning to AZs.
The private Subnets contain the RDS instance.
The public Subnets contain a Bastion EC2 instance which can access the RDS instance.
To access the RDS instance, I either have to SSH into the Bastion machine and access it from there, or I create an SSH tunnel via the Bastion to access it through a Database client application such as PGAdmin.
Current DMS setup:
I would like to be able to use DMS (Database Migration Service) to replication an RDS instance from Production into Development. So far I am trying the following but cannot get it to work:
Create a VPC peering connection between Development VPC and Production VPC
Create a replication instance in the private subnet of the Development VPC
Update the private subnet route tables in the development VPC to route traffic to the CIDR of the production VPC through the VPC peering connection
Ensure the Security group for the replication instance can access both RDS instances.
Main Problem:
When creating the source endpoint in DMS, the wizard only shows RDS instances from the same account and the same region, and only allows RDS instances to be configured using server names and ports, however, the RDS instances in my stacks can only be accessed via Bastion machines using tunnelling. Therefore the test endpoint connection always fails.
Any ideas of how to achieve this cross account replication?
Any good step by step blogs that detail how to do this? I have found a few but they don't seem to have RDS instances sitting behind bastion machines and so they all assume the endpoint configuration wizard can be populated using server names and ports.
Many thanks.
Securing the RDS instances via the Bastion host is sound security practice, of course, for developer/operational access.
For DMS migration service however, you should expect to open security group for both the Target and Source RDS database instances to allow the migration instance to have access to both.
From Network Security for AWS Database Migration Service:
The replication instance must have access to the source and target endpoints. The security group for the replication instance must have network ACLs or rules that allow egress from the instance out on the database port to the database endpoints.
Database endpoints must include network ACLs and security group rules that allow incoming access from the replication instance. You can achieve this using the replication instance's security group, the private IP address, the public IP address, or the NAT gateway’s public address, depending on your configuration.
See
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Security.Network.html
For network addressing and to open the RDS private subnet, you'll need a NAT on both source and target. They can be added easily, and then terminated after the migration.
You can now use Network Address Translation (NAT) Gateway, a highly available AWS managed service that makes it easy to connect to the Internet from instances within a private subnet in an AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
See
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2015/12/introducing-amazon-vpc-nat-gateway-a-managed-nat-service/
I have two VPCs in AWS. elasticache is in one of the VPC.
I also have a lambda that needs to access the elasticache. I have attached the following policies to the lambda to access the elasticache.
AWSLambdaVPCAccessExecutionRole (as per mentioned here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/vpc-ec-create-iam-role.html)
AmazonElastiCacheFullAccess
But I still cannot connect to the Elasticache endpoint from the lambda. It is throwing the following error:
Task timed out after 63.06 seconds
Essentially indicating it failed to connect. But any ec2 instance within the VPC can connect to the elasticache.
AWS Lambda uses elastic network interfaces (ENIs) that enable your function to connect securely to other resources. As you mentioned, lambda function is running in your VPC, not in AWS managed VPC, I recommend couple of below checks to perform which could cause connectivity issue between Lambda and ElastiCache (EC).
IAM Role: Make sure IAM role has required permission to access other VPCs resources.
Network: Verify that both VPC subnet network access control lists (ACLs) allow traffic on the port that you are connecting, and also for the Lambda security group.
Your Lambda function has no route to access the Elasticache VPC. Assuming the VPC CIDRs do not overlap:
If the VPCs are in the same region, you can create a VPC peering between the VPCs. The routing table entry to create a route between the VPCs will be automatically added when you create a peering connection. See: VPC Peering
If the VPCs are in different regions, check Does AWS offer inter-region / cross region VPC Peering? and if peering is available, you can create a peering connection just like #1
If the VPCs are in different regions, and peering connections is not supported, then you have to have a VPN in each VPC and route the traffic through the VPN.
Let's say lambda-A needs access to the ElastiCache in a different VPC(VPC-B).
Options:
You can create another lambda-B in your VPC-B, and let your lambda-A call lambda-B which then call ElastiCache.
Create a NAT instance in the same VPC as your cache cluster but in a public subnet.
Use VPC peering.
Ref: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/mem-ug/accessing-elasticache.html
I have a VPC on AWS with a public and a private subnet. I've deployed an instance of OpenVPN appliance in the public subnet to access my EC2 nodes in the private subnet. As expected, with VPN I can access (for e.g. SSH into) any EC2 node that I manually create in the private subnet. But I can't access services (for example Elastic Search or RDS Postgres) that AWS creates in the same private subnet. (I did make sure all security groups are properly configured on the Postgres and RDS). What am I missing?
I use a similar setup when connecting to my private RDS instances via VPN. I apologize, I cannot comment since this account is new and I do not have the reputation, I will have to make assumptions.
Your security groups need to be VPC security groups, not ec2 security groups (if they are not already).
VPC SG 1 (ec2 Bridge): This group is assigned to your OpenVPN server and allows traffic on your Postgres port and private IP CIDR.
Here is an example of mine for MSSQL and MySQL (I have multiple tunnels):
VPC SG 2 (Dev RDS Bridge): This has to allow traffic from VPC SG 1
Here is an example group I made just made for Aurora MySQL:
Finally, assign VPC SG 2 to your RDS Instance:
Now you should be able to talk to your RDS over your VPN connection while the RDS remains closed to the public. The process is similar for other AWS private resources.
Let me know if I wrongly assumed anything or can help more.