Questions tagged [amazon-vpc]
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) lets you provision a logically isolated section of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define
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How to limit AWS VPC endpoint to to signed requests
We had a scan done recently of our AWS infrastructure, and one of the high risk level items that we need to address is to
Identify any fully accessible VPC endpoints and update their access policy in ...
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Subnet associations in AWS Route tables
What is this "Subnet Associations" in AWS Route tables? Do I have to add the subnets under "Explicit Subnet Associations" as well?
It is already under "Subnets without ...
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What actually makes an EC2 instance in a private subnet unreachable from the internet?
I'm reading everywhere (including the official documentation) that an EC2 instance in a private subnet cannot be reached from the internet, even if it has a public IP.
Let's say I have a 10.0.0.0/16 ...
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Remove public IPv4 from AWS EC2 instances
Since February 1, 2024, AWS started charging for public IPv4 and I have several EC2 instances.
Some instances I can having only public IPv6, for others I need to keep public IPv4. I disabled Elastic ...
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"Property CidrBlock or Ipv4IpamPoolId cannot be empty" when trying to create an IPv6-only VPC Subnet
When trying to create an IPv6-only VPC Subnet, using AWS CloudFormation, stack creation fails with the following message:
CREATE_FAILED
Resource handler returned message: "Invalid request ...
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Migrate AWS ECS cluster IPV4 to IPV6
I'm trying to avoid this new cost (public IPv4) in aws for small projects because it will represent a big percentage of the cost.
In my ECS cluster, I use EC2 instances as capacity providers, ...
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AWS VPC Connect Endpoint and Workbrench integration
I have some RDS instances under a private subnet and a bastion host (ec2 instance) with a public IP to connect to it. As part of getting a security certification we need to get rid of all ec2 ...
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Prioritize S2S VPN on AWS when using 1 VGW
We have the following AWS setup:
1 VPC
1 Virtual Private Gateway (VGW)
8 Customer Gateways (CGWs)
8 Site-to-Site (S2S) VPN connections
We have 4 sites, each connected to our VPC with 2 S2S VPN ...
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Allow AWS Identity provider to access a private VPC where the OIDC Idp resides
We want to implement Gitlab-AWS short-lived credentials but our Gitlab instance is located inside a private, non internet accessible VPC Subnet.
I have looked into VPC Endpoints but I cannot find the ...
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how to block outgoing traffic in ec2 without blocking ssh
I have an EC2 with has public subnet and traffic is flowing through internet gateway.
Now, i have an requirement like I have to block all outgoing traffic in EC2.
I have tried to restrict the traffic ...
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Spoke VPC over VPN to IGW
Is it possible to modify this solution so a spoke VPC connects to the TGW hub over VPN, and that spoke VPC's internet access is centralized full tunnel?
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-...
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How to create a VPC endpoint to access SQL DB hosted inside EC2 instance?
I have a lambda in VPC-1 trying to access a SQL database which is hosted inside an EC2 instance in VPC-2. How should I establish a connection between Lambda(VPC-1) and SQL DB (VPC-2) using VPC ...
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How to specify Security Group when creating VPC in AWS web console UI
I created a security group and then wanted to create a VPC and specify this VPC to use this existing security group. I couldn't find an option in AWS' current VPC form to specify the security group. ...
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AWS CIDR Address is not within CIDR Address from VPC
In AWS have created VPC which CIDR is 10.0.0.24.I want to creates its two subnet.its public-subnet is in us-west-1a - IPv4 CIDR 10.0.0.0/24 thenwhen I create private subnet is in us-west-1b - ...
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How to remove headers from all outgoing requests in AWS services (e.g. Lambda)
Just wondering, is there a way to remove a header from all outgoing network requests in AWS?
I have a VPC with public and private subnets and a NAT gateway in the public subnet. A Lambda in this VPC ...
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Unable to access apache2 from outside
I'm hosting a default site for apache2 server on AWS EC2 (Ubuntu) with Elastic IP.
Security group set to open all inbound (testing purposed).
I can access the server via SSH using public IP but I can'...
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AWS - I want to route traffic from one VPC to another, but I want all traffic INTO that VPC to share an IP
Due to a very complicated situation that I can't really get into, we have a VPC that has access to a certain server via a direct connection.
This server requires that we whitelist an IP to access it. ...
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Cloudformation For SG
need to create SG for mutiple VPCs using cloudformation with out hard coding vpc ids in SG
below is example with hard coded vpc but is there way u can get VPC id from mapping or anyother logic
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Can we setup VPC for AWS Lightsail resources?
I am developing an app and to host backend system I am using AWS Lightsail. Is there a way to keep all the inter service communication private?
I am aware this can be achieved with VPC while using AWS ...
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VPC endpoint to reach Beanstalk application associated with a public domain from within VPC
I have a web server running on Beanstalk that is associated with mydomain.org on Route53. The access to this web server is restricted by a security group. I have also a Lambda running in the same VPC, ...
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Why shouldn't EC2 instances be public, if they can be protected with security groups?
It is considered bad practice to place machines that shouldn't be accessible from the internet in a public subnet, because such topology, other than being logically wrong (private instance in an ...
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Elastic Beanstalk deploy app in private VPC without public ip address for EC2
I'm currently developing a NodeJS application that I want to deploy in Elastic Beanstalk (EBS). To isolate & secure my cloud resources I'm using VPCs where I deploy the EBS app and also my ...
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Why is my Google Cloud Function timing out when making a HTTP request to my AWS Fargate instance?
I am working on a Google cloud function for beforeSignIn trigger which needs to fetch some data from a microservice hosted on a AWS Fargate instance. The request times out but only in the Google cloud ...
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AWS: routing back from VPC to an instance
I'm relatively new to AWS and need to set up some internal infrastructure. Example: a VPN server that routes people into a VPC.
I have a VPN server instance bound to an elastic IP that has a subnet ...
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AWS cannot connect to any T3 instance, vpc config valid (I think)
I created a new VPC ca-central. I followed the same procedure as everywhere else:
New VPC (this created acl which is wide open)
three subnets, one for each availabiltiy zone, CIDR spaced out properly
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AWS EC2: adding IP from a separate private block
I have an existing VPC with a CIDR in the 10.0.0.0/16 block.
I now have to create a VPN connection to an external service, who want us to use IPs in 192.168.0.0/16 block.
Unfortunately, AWS does not ...
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OpenVPN on AWS (works in NAT mode but doesn't work in Routing mode)
I have a brand new VPC (10.0.0.0/16) with 3 public subnets (pointing to an IGW) and 3 private subnets (with a NAT GW in each). I have deployed an OpenVPN appliance in the public subnet and configured ...
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AWS: Ping between multiple namespaces in seperated EC2 Instance
I am encountering an issue where I am unable to receive a response when attempting to ping from a namespace located within a public EC2 instance to a private one. To better illustrate my situation, I ...
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How to configure shared VPC for kOps?
As described in this documentation, I want to create a Kubernetes cluster using kOps in an existing VPC. I have created a VPC, Internet Gateway, Route Table, Subnet and an EC2 instance which I want to ...
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How to create EKS cluster with VPC CNI addon via CloudFormation?
I create a EKS cluster (1.24) via cloudformation, it works fine without a CNI plugin but fails when I add vpc-cni addon:
AddonCNI:
Type: 'AWS::EKS::Addon'
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AddonName: vpc-...
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Seamless switch from NAT GATEWAY to VPC gateway
My team is currently burdened by the NAT Gateway costs and we would like to switch over to VPC Gateway endpoint to reduce the costs associated with all the EC2-S3 communication.
at the same time,
We ...
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Can I connect two vpc's with one site to site vpn in same region?
I currently have one site to site vpn connected to one vpc.
I want to add a vpc here(It's the same region),
but I want to connect the on-premise network connected through site to site vpn through site ...
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which ECS task network mode?
I have an Application Load Balancer in a private subnet (used by API Gateway) that targets an ECS task. I want that task to only be accessible from inside the VPC, not from the internet, but I do have ...
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AWS security group cross regions
I am trying to set a security group A to allow SSH access from security group B in a different region. I don't have much experience with networking in general and AWS networking.
Followed the ...
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Why does an S3 to S3 copy care about VPCs? Related to error: "VPC endpoints do not support cross-region requests."
Goal: Get files
from Bucket 1 in ca-central-1 in Account A
to Bucket 2 in us-east-1 in Account B
using the AWS CLI from a third machine using an the IAM role with correct S3 read and write ...
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Linux instance vs Windows instance - different behaviour in an AWS private subnet routing traffic through a NAT
I'm experimenting with a NAT gateway vs a Squid proxy in an EC2 instance (both of these placed in the same public subnet). To test connectivity, I'm using a private subnet to access the internet (once ...
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Can't ping or traceroute through EC2 using AWS Site-to-Site VPN to Cisco ASA
My VPC is connected to Cisco ASA, tunnel is shown to be UP in the AWS console.
What is working:
The engineer on the Cisco side has successfully pinged my EC2
instance within my private 10.5.0.0/17 ...
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Is it necessary to put public and private subnet in different vpc for extra safety
Currently we put public accessible resources like ALB inside public subnet, application servers and data storages inside private subnet (different data storage, say RDS and Elasticache, have their own ...
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Move an Elastic IP from a VPC to Classic EC2
I know it is possible to "Move to VPC Scope", but is it also possible to move back from VPC to Classic EC2?
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Creating Subnet IP address : IPv4 block sizes must be between a /16 netmask and /28 netmask
I'm new to AWS and I'm looking to create a subnet. Whenever I try the defaults subnets under I get either the error message "IPv4 block sizes must be between a /16 netmask and /28 netmask." ...
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AWS PrivateLink connection with HTTPS
I have two VPCs, a consumer VPC and a service VPC. Consumer application HAS to access the service via AWS PrivateLink and it HAS to be an HTTPS call. Here is my current setup, which works:
Note that ...
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AWS: Classic RDS to VPC resulted in high CPU
We are running a single 5.7 MySQL Database
for couple of years using Amazon AWS RDS service.
3 days ago we moved our server from a Classic RDS into a VPC (no other action was done).
The load on our ...
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NAT Gateway breaks incoming traffic for instances in public subnet
I have Elastic Beanstalk instances accessible through an ALB in public subnets and want to assign them a single IP address (A partner asked us for an IP to whitelist to access their services)
I have ...
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How do I deploy a docker container on AWS Elastic Beanstalk privately such that only other AWS resources can access it?
Need to make an AWS deployment decision. A lot of this tech (docker, beanstalk) is pretty new so I don't know best practices (and I'm also foggier than I'd like to be on networking and security).
Tech ...
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Fargate task from service with Public IP disabled can't download env file from S3
We have a Fargate service that should be exposed to the internet via a load balancer, and since for tests we had used so far the random Public IP of the task, we decided to disable the Public IP, so ...
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How to specify AWS region in CloudFormation VPC
Reading through the AWS CloudFormation VPC docs, I'm not seeing how/where I specify the region to create the VPC in. Any ideas as to how this configuration works?
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AWS VPC Peering vs PrivateLink for network access to 3rd party cloud database
AWS here. I have a simple app server that is running on EC2 instances that are in an autoscaling ("target") group that are fronted by an application load balancer (ALB). The ALB's domain ...
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Elastic BeanStalk can't connect to ElastiCache Redis
I'm having issues connecting from Elastic BeanStalk to ElastiCache Redis. When I SSH into the EBS instance and try to use redis-cli to connect, it times out. This is how I set up my environment:
I ...
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VPC connection between LDAP server onsite and LDAP client in Amazon
I currently have a VPC connection between LDAP server onsite and LDAP client in Amazon. However, after some time the connection starts to fail. I can notice that, since this appears for my user (even ...
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disassociate EIP and then convert to vps eip
I have an eip that I want to convert from scope EC2-classic to VPC. Can I disassociate, convert to VPC eip, and then just re-associate with the same ec2 instance? I'm not sure if I will be able to ...
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