I have one web application hosted in EC2, and its backend database is in RDS (SQL Server).
I would like to configure the outbound rule (IP address) in my EC2 instance so that it can connect to the RDS SQL Server instance.
As RDS has dynamic IP address, how to configure the EC2 outbound rule so that it can communicate with RDS without any problem? And, what is the best practice to do it, so that best security practice can be achieved?
Thanks.
Create a VPC security group (let's call it sg-rds) and place your RDS instance in it. Create another VPC security group (sg-ec2) and place your EC2 instance in that one.
Then, add an Outbound Rule in sg-ec2 that allows TCP traffic on port 1433 to go to sg-rds, specifying sg-rds as the Destination of the rule:
Depending on the security group settings for your RDS database, you'll also need to set up the equivalent Inbound Rule from sg-db to sg-ec2.
By setting up the security group rules in this way, you'll always be able to connect between EC2 servers in sg-ec2 and your RDS database in sg-rds even if their IP addresses change.
See this walkthrough in the AWS docs for more.
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I have setup a VPN and able to ping the Private IP of EC2 instance from on-premises and vice versa. However, I am unable to the ping the Private IP of DMS Replication Instance.
I have created an endpoint pointing DB in EC2. Endpoint test connection succeeds. However, endpoint test connection fails for DB in on-premises.
The EC2 and DMS Replication Instance use the same Subnet, Security Group etc., The details are given in the image below.
May I know
1) why the DMS instance is not communicating with on-premises (and vice-versa)
2) why EC2 works fine in VPN but not DMS instance?
EDIT:
Details of Security Group associated with the DMS instance:
vpc - the same default vpc used by EC2
inbound rules - all traffic, all protocol, all port range, source = 192.168.0.0/24
outbound rules - all traffic, all protocol, all port range, source = 0.0.0.0/0
Route table:
destination - 10.0.0.0/16, target = local
destination - 0.0.0.0/0, target = internet gateway
destination - 192.168.0.0/24, target = virtual private gateway used in VPN
This is the error message I get when I try to test the DMS DB endpoint connection:
Test Endpoint failed: Application-Status: 1020912, Application-Message: Failed to connect Network error has occurred, Application-Detailed-Message: RetCode: SQL_ERROR SqlState: HYT00 NativeError: 0 Message: [unixODBC][Microsoft][ODBC Driver 13 for SQL Server]Login timeout expired ODBC general error.
You might need to describe/provide your full network topology for a more precise answer, but my best guess, based on AWS' documentation on "Network Security for AWS Database Migration Service", is that you're missing source and target database configuration:
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.
Also, is this EC2 you mentioned a NAT instance? Just in case:
If your network uses a VPN tunnel, the Amazon EC2 instance acting as the NAT gateway must use a security group that has rules that allow the replication instance to send traffic through it.
I launched one RDS instance,s3 and EC2 in AWS and its is triggered properly using lambda. Now I wish to change the change the RDS and EC2 from AWS to local machine. My lambda is triggered from s3.
How do I connect the local database through lambda in AWS?
It appears that your requirement is:
You wish to run an AWS Lambda function
Within the function, you wish to connect to a database running on your own computer (outside of AWS)
Firstly, I would not recommend this strategy. To maintain good performance, you should always have an application as close as possible to the database. This means on the same network, in the same location and not going across remote network connections or the Internet.
However, if you wish to do this, then here's some things you would need to do:
Your database will need to be accessible on the Internet, so that you can connect to it remotely. To test this, try accessing it from an Amazon EC2 instance.
The AWS Lambda function should either be configured without VPC connectivity (which means that it is connected to the Internet) or, if you have configured it for VPC connectivity, it needs to be in a Private Subnet with a NAT Gateway enabling Internet access.
(Optional) For added security, you could lock-down your database to only accept connections from a known IP address. To achieve this, you would need to use the VPC + NAT Gateway so that all traffic is coming from the Elastic IP address assigned to the NAT Gateway.
I agree with John Rotenstein that connecting your local machine to a Lambda running on AWS is probably a bad idea.
If your intention is to develop or test locally, I recommend the serverless framework, and the serverless-offline plugin. It will allow you to simulate Lambda locally, and you can pass database config values through as environment variables.
See: Running AWS Lambda and API Gateway locally: serverless-offline
I have an instance of AWS RDS running in a private subnet of a VPC.
I would like my EC2 machine, which is running on a public subnet to have access to it via SSL (and not SSH like I saw people suggest. I want to access it directly from the code via SSL).
Is there a way to do so?
The EC2 instance should have direct access to the RDS instance as long as they are in the same VPC. You just need to open up the security group assigned to the RDS instance to allow ingress from the EC2 instance.
I think you have SSH tunneling (which isn't needed when both servers are in the same VPC) and SSL database connections confused. SSH and SSL would be completely unrelated in this case.
SSL connection support would be a function of the specific database engine you are using. If your database is configured to support SSL connections, then you should be able to configure your database client software running on your EC2 instance to use SSL when creating connections to the database.
For testing purposes, I set up a VPC on Amazon and created an instance within the VPC. I've added a gateway for the 0.0.0.0/0 address to the attached routing table, and given the instance an elastic IP address. I'm unable to ssh or ping it, even when I set the security group to allow all traffic. I must be missing something obvious. What am I doing wrong?
It turns out that when I created the instance, I accepted the default security group, which only allows access from a specific IP address. When I added another instance, I created it with a security group which allowed all traffic, and I was able to ping it.
Can an Amazon EC2 instance process requests from and return results to an external client which may a browser or non-browser application? (I know that the EC2 instance will require a IP address and must be able to create a socket and bind to a port in order to do this.)
I'm considering an Amazon EC2 instance because the server application is not written in PHP, Ruby or any other language that conventional web hosting services support by default.
Sure it will. Just setup the security group the right way to allow your clients to connect.
Take a look at this guide: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud - Security Groups
Also keep in mind: It's not possible to change the policy group after you created the EC2 instance. This feature is available for VPC instances only. See http://aws.amazon.com/vpc/faqs/#S2 for more information.