I am hosting a SIP server in EC2 using elastic IP. However, I read that SIP server doesn't really work well if the server is not public facing (using NAT), because from what I read at AWS site, elastic IP is using 1:1 NAT.
The Elastic IP address is mapped to the instance using 1:1 NAT. The
instance itself is not aware of the public address.
Is there any public facing non-NAT static IP address that I can buy from Amazon and assign to my server? Or, this action is actually useless?
Thanks!
You can't have EC2 instance with public IP without NAT. Nevertheless all major PBX, proxy server or SIP server should work well with NAT. Freeswitch for example even have manual for running it in EC2:
https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/Amazon+EC2
If you still want to get rid of NAT, you can try Digitalocean, it is similar to Amazon but without NAT.
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Please i need help in using elastic IP(assigned to instance) from AWS as proxy server, the first picture shows how other people are doing it. Users on my website will use it to login to another website that requires static IP(Doesn't change). I want to know how to authenticate EC2 elastic IP and use it as proxy server, all i have so far is i need to assign elastic IP to my instance on AWS, but i don't know how to authenticate the IPs once created. And i don't want to buy static IP from other company like brightdata or smartproxy.
This picture shows how other people are doing it, and the IP is from amazon:
Does your Public IP change that often? Can you just have them give you their 'IP Chicken' address and just use that?
I think based on what you are describing you want to whitelist IPs via an ACL. Here are some steps you can use:
https://www.purevpn.com/blog/whitelist-ip-addresses-on-aws/
If you do not want to use their Public IP from wherever they are, here is another workflow:
VPN to a Bastion Host (Jump Host)
Put the Public IP you whitelist to your application on the Jump host
Require your users access the Jump Host to access the website.
You can Use Amazon Elastic IPs without issue. It is a good idea.
Public IP addresses from AWS can only be used on AWS services (eg Amazon EC2 instances). They cannot be used on external services outside of AWS.
In your picture, the IP address is assigned to an Amazon EC2 instance.
I have an application and api running/hosted in same aws ec2 instance . I have enabled ssl cert using acm via load balancer for application domain . However , my api is exposing via ec2 public ip i.e http://ec2ip. In such scenario how can I bind ssl cert in IP address i.e https://ec2ip ?
You ideally don't want to have a public IP on your load-balanced EC2. You can achieve this by placing the EC2s in a private subnet. This will need bastion server in order to SSH though.
If you absolutely want HTTPS on an IP address, this SO page is the answer. If you do set that up, make sure that it is an elastic IP address.
If you have load balance you shouldn't directly access your instance using public IP. As per AWS documentation you shouldn't even have a public IP address for your instance.
someday if you run security assessment to your aws environment, AWS Foundational Security Best Practices v1.0.0 will be failed because of public IP.
EC2 instances should not have a public IPv4 address
This all about security concerns. Typically, only a Load Balancer is exposed to the Internet.
Back to Basics: Protecting Your Network in the Cloud
The EC2 is configured correctly, Elastic Ip is attached and the domain is pointing to EC2 linux machine.
Everything is working perfectly fine. But the problem is that all 3 Elastic IP, The Public DNS provided by EC2 and the domain that I pointed to EC2 machine are all displaying the same content and i don't want that. I only want the website or the domain to display the contents and both elastic IP and the public dns should be inaccessible to public or the internet. How do i do that can someone please help?
I want this to work like for instance you bought a dedicated vps package from hostpapa or from a similar hosting provider. The dedicated IP's that they provide you are only accessible until you've connected a domain. The moment you configure the domain and assign one of the dedicated Ip to that domain. The connection from that ip address when ran on a browser gives you either a webmaster error or server not found. I am looking for that kind of solution
I have an EC2 instance running in AWS and here's the scenario I'm trying to achieve. I have a VPC setup with 3 subnets. 2 of them are private with no access to the internet (even using a NAT gateway/NAT instance), and another is a public subnet.
Bastion Host configured with Public IP (55.55.55.55 for example) in the public subnet.
I have ec2 instance launched in a private subnet that hosts my application, and I want my users to be able to access the application from their workstation browsers.
If I set up the SSH connection as discussed here, it works perfectly fine for the web browser page set up on my bastion host. However, for my use case, I need to achieve another level of SSH forward like above as my application is in the private subnet for that application to be accessible from my local machine. Is that possible somehow? I also need to make sure there are no issues with the DNS.
ssh -N <Bastion_IP/HostName> -L<LocalPort>:<Internal_IP_of_Web_Server>:<WebServer_Port>
Then you can access the webserver http://localhost:<LocalPort>/
Assuming you have a web application on ec2 in a private subnet and you want to make it available for access outside AWS.
You can setup port forwarding on your bastion host following this tutorial, but I suggest you use a load balancer (ELB) as described in this guide. To use an ELB you will need another public subnet in a different AZ. If you're application is serving HTTP traffic, then it's even better to use a Application ELB (ALB). Here is more info about ALB.
I'm new to setting up applications and currently facing issues connecting to my IP address.
Recently, I launched my first AWS instance and it was working fine before I attached it to an Elastic IP (trying to attach to my GoDaddy domain). The instance state is "running" and everything looks healthy, but when I go to the Public IP/Elastic IP, I get an error message saying: "This site can’t be reached. XX.XXX.XX.XXX refused to connect". I'm using a Mac and my web server is listening on port 80.
Things I have checked:
internet connection is working
not using any firewall/anitvirus
emptied all cache/cookies
not using a proxy server
My Security Group
– inbound ports 80, 8080, 22 and 3389;
– outbound ports 8080, All traffic.
My VPC
– subnet ID is verified and "available"
– route Tables 172.31.0.0/16 & 0.0.0.0/0 are "active", not propagated
Can someone help and please point out what I'm doing wrong?
Attaching an Elastic IP Address to an Amazon EC2 instance does not change anything on the instance itself. It is purely an assignment of a Public IP Address within the Amazon VPC.
Amazon EC2 instances do not normally know their own public IP address. Instead, traffic sent to the Public IP Address is routed through the Internet Gateway and then to the private IP address of the instance. As long as you did not somehow configure the old public IP address within the instance, the assignment of the Elastic IP Address should not be a problem.
You can remove the Elastic IP Address and try connecting again -- the instance will receive an auto-assigned IP address again (which might change whenever you start/stop the instance).
Some things you could try are:
Connect to another instance in the same subnet, with the same Security Group. If this works, then you know that the problem is with the instance itself, rather than the network.
Try connecting to the non-responsive instance from another instance in the same subnet using the private IP address of the non-responsive instance. This will eliminate potential networking problems.
The standard things to always check when attempting to connect from the Internet to an EC2 instance are:
Internet Gateway attached to the VPC
You are referencing the instance via a Public IP Address
Instance was launched in a public subnet, which means that the subnet is associated to a Route Table that routes to the Internet Gateways
Security Group is permitting the inbound traffic from your IP Address and port (outbound traffic configuration is irrelevant because Security Groups are stateful)
Network ACL is not blocking the traffic (by default it permits all inbound and outbound traffic)
The instance is listening on the port (eg Linux SSH on port 22, Windows RDP on port 3389)
There are no host-based firewalls on the instance blocking traffic (eg Windows Firewall)
I always reboot my Linux servers on AWS after associating an elastic IP. Normally I wouldn't blindly suggest rebooting a Linux server, but I have found it helpful in cases like this. There are several things you should think about before rebooting. Making sure you don't have important files exclusively on volatile storage would be one example.
Re "...when I go to the Public IP/Elastic IP..." How are you going to the address? Sounds like you're trying to connect with a web browser.
Have you tried connecting from your Mac over some other protocol, like ssh? That would be another way to confirm that your elastic IP is in effect
Have you tried to connect to the web server more directly? Like using wget from the server's shell? You would use the private IP address or localhost, so that doesn't help diagnose the elastic IP address.