On a AWS EC2 ELB security profile - i need a couple of IP Address to be able to access only certain pages of my website. Is it possible? The other IP Address will have access to the full website. Is this achievable
This is not possible as a configuration in the Load Balancer because the Load Balancer simply distributes requests to your application servers.
Your application will need to enforce such functionality.
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We are moving a workflow of our business to Azure. I currently have two VMs as an HA pair behind an internal load balancer in the North Central US Region as my production environment. I have mirrored this architecture in the South Central US Region for disaster recovery purposes. A vendor recommended I place an Azure Traffic Manager in front of the ILBs for automatic failover, but it appears that I cannot spec ILBs as endpoints for ATM. (For clarity, all connections to these ILBs are through VPNs.)
Our current plan is to put the IPs for both ILBs in a custom-built appliance placed on-prem, and the failover would happen on that appliance. However, it would greatly simplify things if we could present a single IP to that appliance, and let the failover happen in Azure instead.
Is there an Azure product or service, or perhaps more appropriate architecture that would allow for a single IP to be presented to the customer, but allow for automatic failover across regions?
It seems that you could configure an application gateway with an internal load balancer (ILB) endpoint. In this case, you will have a private frontend IP configuration for an Application Gateway. The APPGW will be deployed in a dedicated subnet, it will exist on the same VNet with your internal backend VMs. Please note in this case you can directly add the private VMs as the backends instead of internal load balancer frontend IP address because of private APPGW itself is an internal load balancer.
Moreover, APPGW also could configure a public frontend IP configuration, if so, you can configure the APPGW public frontend IP as the endpoints of the Azure traffic manager.
Hope this could help you.
I am having a free tier AWS account, I am adding WAF with my LB(load balancer) having one instance on EC2. Currently, the security group has only HTTP 80 port.
My instance is located on the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region and when I am creating RULE OR Condition for ACL, I am not getting this region there.
So I have tried to make ACL with the different region and without any rule just configure with the load balancer, After creating ACL when I go for Associate the load balancer with ACL, So there is no load balancer shown in the drop down like below:
please help me, Where can be mistake done by me ?
AWS WAF is not supported yet in the Mumbia region, so if your instance and load balancer is in Mumbai you won't be able to use WAF directly:
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/
You also can't put your WAF in a different region and connect it to your ALB, that won't work either as you have seen.
The only other option is for you to make use of a Cloudfront distribution in front of your load balancer, and your WAF is then linked to your Cloudfront distribution.
I have a database server on a EC2 instance, I want it to accessible by Elastic Load Balancer cluster.
I tried adding the subnet of the Load Balancer security groups of database EC2.
There must be some way to give whole cluster of EC2 instance created ELB and autoscalling, access to single EC2.
Your question isn't too clear, but it appears your scenario is:
Internet -> ELB -> EC2 fleet -> Database (on EC2 instance)
You have a database running on a single EC2 instance
You have multiple EC2 instances running an application that connect to the database
You have an Elastic Load Balancer that accepts traffic from the Internet and distributes it to the EC2 instances running the application
You should configure the following Security Groups:
ELB-SG: Configure this security group to allow incoming web traffic from the Internet (0.0.0.0/0). Associate the security group to the Load Balancer.
App-SG: Configure this security group to allow incoming web traffic from ELB-SG. Associate the security group with every instance in the application fleet. If the EC2 instances are launched via Auto Scaling, then associate the security group with the Launch Configuration.
DB-SG: Configure this security group to allow incoming traffic from App-SG. Associate the security group to the EC2 instance running the database.
When I say "allow incoming traffic from xxx-SG", I mean that you should enter the name of the incoming security group in the Source field when configuring the security group. This will automatically insert the unique name of the security group (sg-xxxx). It means that any resource associated with the referenced security group will be allowed incoming access on the nominated port.
You should avoid using an IP address or CIDR range in a security group, because they can change (eg if you launch another EC2 instance). By referencing a security group by name, it will automatically update as instances are added/removed.
I have a single ec2 instance running a website behind an elastic load balancer in aws. Mainly because I want to use Amazon's new and free ssl for https.
my challenge is, I need to whitelist my IP address in the security groups so that I am the only person that can see this website (and I can selectively add people as needed).
I've successfully whitelisted my IP address without a load balancer. my challenge is white listing my IP address with the load balancer proxy between my IP address and my ec2 instance.
it appears as if my ec2 instance will not register with the load balancer because the security group for my ec2 does not allow incoming traffic from any IP address except for my own.
I am looking for a way for my load balancer to be able to health check my ec2, yet only allow specific whitelisted ips actually see the website.
If you are using a VPC (which you really should be) then you will have a Security Group attached to the load balancer. That's where you will whitelist IP addresses. The EC2 server just needs to whitelist the Load Balancer's security group.
You can visualize it like this:
Your IP -> Security Group 1 -> Load Balancer -> Security Group 2 -> EC2 Instance(s)
Security Group 1 verifies the IP address is on the whitelist, and allows the traffic through to the load balancer. The Load Balancer sends the traffic along to one of the instances in the pool. Security Group 2 verifies that the traffic is coming from something that belongs to Security Group 1 (the load balancer), which has been whitelisted, and allows it to pass through to the EC2 instance.
I was able to solve the issue, by changing the security group of the EC2 to allow incoming http connections on port 80 from the security group assigned to my load balancer.
and then my load balancer itself allows incoming HTTP traffic on port 80 from anywhere.
so I guess the trick here is, you can allow incoming connections from an IP or a security group.
I have an aws Elastic Load Balancer. Sometimes Elastic Load Balancer works sometimse not. Soemetimes I am able to hit the app sometimes it gives me the blank page .
Why its happening so
You should check ping path and ping port on ELB, whether you get response. It seems that ELB brings the instances down as failed healthcheck.
AWS Application Load Balancers are notoriously susceptible to DDoS attacks, a simple SYN flood will bring down a load balancer, and what's worse is that you won't know that it's down, because the AWS Dashboard doesn't expose anything about the load balancer other than some basic HTTP level metrics.