This is a bit of a basic question, I don't have much experience of AWS (Azure is my usual bag!).
When connecting to an RDS instance from and EC2 instance using connection string such as : xxx.xxxxxx.eu-west-1.rds.amazonaws.com:1433 and both the RDS and EC2 are in the same VPC will there be bandwidth charges for that connection? The EC2 can only access the RDS when the RDS IP address is added to the security group.
Also, is the traffic routed over the internet or is there some way to configure traffic over some sort of virtual LAN? If so could someone point me in the direction of how that works?
Does this configuration sound correct?
Thanks for your help.
Carl
When connecting to an RDS instance from and EC2 instance using
connection string such as :
xxx.xxxxxx.eu-west-1.rds.amazonaws.com:1433 and both the RDS and EC2
are in the same VPC will there be bandwidth charges for that
connection?
The bandwidth charges are the same as data transfer between two EC2 instances in the same VPC. That is, there will be no charge for data transfer within the same availability zone, and will be charged $0.01 per GB for data transferred between availability zones.
The EC2 can only access the RDS when the RDS IP address is
added to the security group.
You should enable inbound access from the EC2 security group associated with your EC2 instance, instead of the EC2 IP address.
Also, is the traffic routed over the internet or is there some way to
configure traffic over some sort of virtual LAN? If so could someone
point me in the direction of how that works?
The VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) is the virtual LAN you are looking for. All traffic between instances and services within your VPC stays within your VPC. Communication within your VPC does not go out to the internet.
Since you mentioned you are coming from an Azure background, you should try to map your knowledge of Azure services to the corresponding AWS services. I believe an "Azure Virtual Network" is basically the same thing as an AWS VPC.
You can give permission to your ec2 instance ip address in your RDS security group.
Which database you used?
If you are using mysql then ping from server terminal:
mysql -h<<hostname>> -u<<username>> -p<<password>>
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I have an Amazon Lightsail MySQL database.
I have enabled "VPC Peering" in Amazon Lightsail account.
I have an EC2 server in the VPC account that is "peered" with Lightsail.
Now I want to access the Lightsail database from the EC2 instance. I know the "easy way" is to enable the "Public mode" in the Lightsail database. In this way, the endpoint is publicly available on Internet, so you can connect from anywhere.
I want to avoid this, so here is the question: Is it possible to access the Lightsail database from the EC2 instance, using the internal VPC communication? If not, is there any other way to make this connection more secure? Maybe a way to whitelist IPs in Lightsail databases?
Thanks!
To reproduce your situation, I did the following:
Launched an Amazon Lightsail Database (I chose PostgreSQL)
Enabled VPC Peering in the Lightsail console (Account / Advanced)
Launched an Amazon EC2 instance in the Default VPC (which is the only one that Lightsail connects to)
Tried connecting from the EC2 instance to the Lightsail database
It did not work.
The database DNS Name successfully resolved to an IP address that was in the correct range for VPC Peering. However, when attempting to connect to the database, psql hung for a long time before failing. This is an indication of no network connection between the EC2 instance and the Lightsail database.
Normally, the way to fix it would be to check the Security Groups, but Lightsail does not support security groups. It would appear that access to the Lightsail database is locked-down to the Lightsail network and it is not accessible via VPC Peering.
I am having an Amazon RDS Postgres instance which resides in the default VPC.
To connect to it, i am using different EC2 instances (Java Spring Boot and NodeJs) running in ElasticBeanstalk. These instances also reside in the default VPC.
Do these EC2 instances connect to/query the RDS instance through the internet or the calls do not leave the AWS Network?
If they leave the AWS network and the calls go through the internet, is creating a VPC endpoint the right solution? Or my whole understanding is incorrect.
Thanks a lot for your help.
Do these EC2 instances connect to/query the RDS instance through the internet or the calls do not leave the AWS Network?
The DNS of the RDS endpoint will resolve to private IP address when used from within VPC. So communication is private, even if you use public subnets or set your RDS instance as publicly available. However, for connection from outside of AWS, the RDS endpoint will resolve to public IP address if the db instance is publicly available.
If they leave the AWS network and the calls go through the internet, is creating a VPC endpoint the right solution?
There is no VPC endpoint for RDS client connections, only for management actions (creating db-instance, termination, etc). In contrast, Aurora Serverless has Data API with corresponding VPC endpoint.
To secure your DB-Instances communications you need to be sure at least about the following:
locate your RD in private subnet (route table does not contain default outbound route to internet gateway).
RDS security group just accept traffic inbound only from instances security group/groups on TCP port for PostgreSQL which is usually 5432.
In this case Traffice to RDS will go localy in your vpc, for vpc endpoints it can be used to access RDS API operations privatly which is not your case (you just need to connect your app to DB using connection string)
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 an EC2 that run as a VPN server. In the same VPC I have a RDS instance and another EC2 instance in a private subnet.
I have devices that connects to the VPN server and I have configured that they can communicate with each-other and with the private EC2 too. But I can't make them to communicate with the RDS instance.
I have configured the Security Group of the RDS to allow all inbound traffic from the SG of both EC2, tried to allow even All Traffic from 0.0.0.0/0 a still VPN clients can't communicate with the RDS. I see that RDS can communicate inside the VPC but not outside it. Once upon a time a remember and I'm sure that I was connected from my local MySQL Workbench to the RDS(3 years ago)
Is there anyway to make this work?
Your answer may be in this OpenVPN Support thread. I'm running into the same issue. From what I gather, when you're connected over vpn, public IPs and DNS names won't resolve. You can connect to other EC2 instances easily using private IPs. But the RDS instance's IP is not static, so it must be resolved using it's host name. The solution apparently is to make your OpenVPN server use the Amazon DNS server, so that it can resolve the RDS instance by its host name.
I have a corporate setup that primarily has 2 peered VPCs at the moment. We want to provision Elasticache (for Redis) so that 2 EC2 IIS Web Servers (one in each of the two VPCs) can connect to the same Elasticache cluster, is this possible?
Currently I can successfully connect to the cluster from the EC2 instance that is in the same VPC that the Elasticache cluster was provisioned in, but the other EC2 instance in the peered VPC cannot connect.
I tried allowing all access through security groups, turned off firewalls, etc... but nothing works.
Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
We encountered the same issue and it turned out that route table configuration was not properly set in our case.
Route table for elasticache subnet need to have a config below.
Destination -> IP address range for client EC2 instance subnet
Target -> peering connection ('pcx-xxxxx')