

This guide shows you how to configure a AWS Client VPN with AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory. It uses OpenVPN and TLS to provide a secure connection into your AWS environment. One common area that is often overlooked is your VPN client endpoint and the issues for remote staff if there is an issue with your client vpn endpoint, if you have a hybrid on-premise/AWS cloud environment with a greater percentage of your services sitting in AWS it makes sense to move your company's VPN endpoint to a managed AWS offering, it can offer greater security, resiliancy, scalability and remove the requirement of additional licences on your VPN endpoint device.ĪWS Client VPN is a managed client-based VPN service that enables you to securely access your AWS resources and resources in your on-premises network. In modern IT environments, high availability and resiliency should be ingrained into everything that is built or developed.


Read more: AWS - SSL Offloading with an Application Load Balancer This article shows you to do the SSL offloading on an AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB). This also greatly reduces your SSL administration not only during the initial build and ongoing certificate renewals but also simplifies auto scaling configurations in addition to addressing certain types of security attacks away from the web servers, there is also cost savings to be had with certificate renewals and reduced server specifications without the decryption/encryption overhead.īy utilising Amazon Certificate Manager with your ALB, the certificate will be stored securely, regularly rotated and updated automatically by AWS with no action on your part and best of all it is free providing you use the AWS load balancer service. SSL offloading or SSL termination is removing the SSL based encryption from incoming traffic that a web server receives to eliminate the server from processing the burden of encrypting and decrypting traffic sent through SSL allowing it to focus its resources for serving web content.
