I accidentally enabled firewall in my Ec2 instance which blocked me from SSHing --> Then, I used this answer to https://stackoverflow.com/a/50999373/3705478 gain access to my Ec2 instance, but my public Ip address changed. --> This caused me to update my Ip address with Domain registrar as it is a web server facing public. Also I have to change the ip address of the DB running Ec2 instances.
How can I prevent my public Ip address changing under such situations in Amazon EC2?
See the aws documentation for allocating a static ip here https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/elastic-ip-addresses-eip.html#using-instance-addressing-eips-allocating
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when I log into my instance there is a certain IP address that refers to it. However, once I login I see some thing like:
ubuntu#ip-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx:~$
Why is the xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx ip different than the IP used to login?
EC2 instances have both an internal and an external IP. While you access it over the public internet via the external IP, the instance internally knows itself as its private, internal IP address.
Is it possible to assign Elastic IP Address to my instance without changing the public IP address?, i need to Transforms my public IP address to be Elastic IP Address
Yes. It is possible. You can access your instance with Both Elastic IP as well as Public IP Address. But remember when your EC2 instance restart at that time its public IP may get change so people preferring to use Elastic IP Address.
Hope this Helps !
Using Elastic Network Interfaces it is possible if you started the instance in a VPC. You can assign the Elastic IP to an Elastic Network Interface which you can then attach to the EC2 instance. EC2 instances in VPC can have multiple ENI. If you assign an EIP directly to the EC2 instance (classic or VPC) then the public IP changes to the EIP.
When you associate an EIP with an instance, the instance's current
public IP address is released to the EC2-Classic public IP address
pool. If you disassociate an EIP from the instance, the instance is
automatically assigned a new public IP address within a few minutes.
In addition, stopping the instance also disassociates the EIP from it.
from: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/elastic-ip-addresses-eip.html
I have the following setup:
- a VPC, with several subnets, and an access gateway and a NAT instance having public addresses that I can connect to,
- I create a Linux instance in a subnet of the VPC, that has NO public IP address or DNS name (I want that only the Load Balancer be known on the internet).
I want to connect to my Linux instance to install and configure software.
How do you connect to that instance? All the documentation I have seen mentions that you connect using "ec2-user#".
Since I have no public DNS, i have tried to connect from the access gateway via putty with the private DNS of my linux instance but it fails ("host does not exist").
I am obviously missing something ... in the NAT?
Thanks, Laurent
You need to have a hosts in the public subnet which you can access. Once you access this host, then you can connect to your other hosts in VPC using their private IP address.
Your instance in question has only private IP address so connecting it from your workstation is not going to work.
The host I am referring to is usually called Bastion Host. read the Tip in Scenario 2: VPC with Public and Private Subnets documentation.
Also, read first few results of this Google Search to gain overall understanding on use-cases for Bastion hosts.
How can I make ec2 instance communicate with rds instance on aws by internal ip address or dns?
I only see public dns like xxx.cehmrvc73g1g.eu-west-1.rds.amazonaws.com:3306
Will internal ipaddress will be faster than public dns?
Thanks
A note for posterity, ensure that you enable DNS on the VPC Peering link!
Enabling DNS Resolution Support for a VPC Peering Connection
To enable a VPC to resolve public IPv4 DNS hostnames to private IPv4
addresses when queried from instances in the peer VPC, you must modify
the peering connection.
Both VPCs must be enabled for DNS hostnames and DNS resolution.
To enable DNS resolution support for the peering connection
Open the Amazon VPC console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/vpc/.
In the navigation pane, choose Peering Connections.
Select the VPC peering connection, and choose Actions, Edit DNS
Settings.
To ensure that queries from the peer VPC resolve to private IP
addresses in your local VPC, choose the option to enable DNS
resolution for queries from the peer VPC.
If the peer VPC is in the same AWS account, you can choose the option
to enable DNS resolution for queries from the local VPC. This ensures
that queries from the local VPC resolve to private IP addresses in the
peer VPC. This option is not available if the peer VPC is in a
different AWS account.
Choose Save.
If the peer VPC is in a different AWS account, the owner of the peer
VPC must sign into the VPC console, perform steps 2 through 4, and
choose Save.
You can use the "Endpoint" DNS name. It will resolve to the internal IP when used within the VPC and resolves to a public ip when used outside of your AWS network. You should never use the actual IP address because the way the RDS works it could possibly change in the future.
If you ping it from your EC2 (on the same VPC) server you can verify this.
It is amazing to see the amount of down votes I've got given that my answer is the only correct answer, here is 2 other sources:
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=70112
You can use the "Endpoint" DNS name. It will resolve to the internal IP when used within EC2.
https://serverfault.com/questions/601548/cant-find-the-private-ip-address-for-my-amazon-rds-instance2
The DNS endpoint provided in the AWS console will resolve to the internal IPs from within Amazon's network.
Check out the AWS EC2 docs: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-instance-addressing.html#concepts-private-addresses.
It doesn't appear that this necessarily applies to RDS, however.
When resolving your RDS instance from within the same VPC the internal IP is returned by the Amazon DNS service.
If the RDS instance is externally accessible you will see the external IP from outside the VPC. However, if the EC2 instance NOT available publiclly the internal IP address is returned to external and internal lookups.
Will internal ip address will be faster than the external address supplied by public dns?
Most likely as the packets will need to be routed when using the external addresses, increasing latency.
It also requires that your EC2 instances have a public IP or NAT gateway along with appropriate security groups and routes, increasing cost, increasing complexity and reducing security.
its pretty easy, telnet your RDS endpoint using command prompt on windows or through unix terminal
for example: telnet "you RDS endpoint" "Port"
trying to connect "You get your RDS internal IP here"
I have an EC2 instance, which is able to connect to my RDS instance, yet its elastic IP does not appear in the DB security group of whitelisted IP's.
How might this be?
I ask because I have created a new instance, which I also want to whitelist and just entering its elastic IP does not seem like the way to do things since none of the other servers have their elastic IP listed.
Thanks in advance,
There might be two causes here:
Traffic Sources
Security Group Rules do not necessarily specify IP addresses as traffic sources alone, rather regularly will refer to other security groups as well:
The source can be an individual IP address (203.0.113.1), a range of
addresses (e.g., 203.0.113.0/24), or an EC2 security group. The
security group can be another group in your AWS account, a group in
another AWS account, or the security group itself.
By specifying a security group as the source, you allow incoming
traffic from all instances that belong to the source security group.
[...] You might specify another security group in your account if you're creating a
three-tier web service (see Creating a Three-Tier Web Service).
[emphasis mine]
Consequently, the DB security group of your Amazon RDS instance might refer to the EC2 security group used for your Amazon EC2 instance, implying respective access rights already. See my answer to AWS - Configuring access to EC2 instance from Beanstalk App for more details regarding this concept/approach.
Public vs. Private IP Addresses
You might see the effect of a little known, but nonetheless important and quite helpful feature of the AWS DNS infrastructure, see section Public and Private Addresses on page Using Instance IP Addresses:
Amazon EC2 also provides an internal DNS name and a public DNS name
that map to the private and public IP addresses respectively. The
internal DNS name can only be resolved within Amazon EC2. The public
DNS name resolves to the public IP address outside the Amazon EC2
network and the private IP address within the Amazon EC2 network. [emphasis mine]
That is, it's resolving the public DNS (e.g. ec2-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com) to the private IP address when you are using it inside the Amazon EC2 network, and to the public or elastic IP address when using it outside the Amazon EC2 network.
Accordingly, the various AWS products are usually wired up between each other by means of their private IP Addresses rather than external ones for a variety of reasons, most importantly network speed and cost (see my answer to AWS EC2 Elastic IPs bandwidth usage and charges for details).
Consequently, the DB security group of your Amazon RDS instance might refer to the private IP address of your Amazon EC2 instance, implying respective access rights accordingly.