I'm creating a redis instance in ec2 that I want my heroku app to be able to access. Are there specific inbound source ip ranges or security settings I can set in Amazon ec2 security groups to only allow traffic from my heroku instances?
UPDATE: Heroku no longer publishes it's security groups so this is no longer possible.
Heroku dynos can make any outbound tcp connection to anywhere.
I think this is what you want: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/proximo
Then you will be able to use AWS security groups.
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I currently have a Google cloud redis instance running which allows all connections ( ip range 0.0.0.0/0 ) which I would like to secure.
I have an api that is hosted on Heroku that is being forwarded to via a google domain. What I want to know is which ip do I add to the Source Ip ranges field in the google cloud firewall config tab to only allow connections from my API.
There are a few things I am confused about:
I need to specify an IP range, but I'm only going to be connecting to it from one IP ( The domain pointing to my API )
Which IP do I provide? The IP of my domain that is pointing to my API or the IP of the api instance itsself as it is on heroku?
Any help would be great!
Thanks
Heroku itself is hosted on AWS, so it uses a subset of their EC2 range.
Looking at this answer, you could use
heroku regions --json
to find the currently used IP ranges.
Problem with that: they can change!
If you need a static source IP coming from a Heroku app, you might want to use one of the SOCKS5 proxy addons.
But:
There is a performance impact for this cross-datacenter usage between your application and the Redis instance, so actually I would recommend you switching to a Redis instance by Heroku, or at least by a provider that lives inside the same AWS region.
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.
Currently I have setup my web application on my 2 instance (ec2). Both instance have same web module and also SSL certificate.
And then I also have setup 1 load balancer for both instance for high availability.
But I was wondering on domain name part. Because both instance have different IP, and right now I only assign 1 IP instance into our domain provider.
So basically do I need provide both instance IP into my domain provider? Sorry I was newbie on this domain part :(
wasabiz, since you are a newbie, I would suggest going with AWS Beanstalk path.
To answer your question.
You can use Route53 to create/import your domain Name. The domain can point to DNS name of the Loadbalancer. From there LB will route the traffic to your EC2 instances. You need to introduce the autoscaling layer and move the EC2 instances inside it. So that the auto scalaing requirements can be fulfilled. All these options are configurable in AWS BeanStalk.
You have options to generate TSL certificates in AWS which is free to be used in AWS infrastructure. Otherwise, if you already have a certificate, you can import the certificate into AWS through AWS Certificate Manager and use it where ever needed, eg:load balancer.
I have a heroku app and I would like to configure the firewall on it to allow connections from only some whitelisted IPs. I know heroku dynos run ubuntu. So is there anyway to configure ufw on it? Or can I configure the pre-existing firewall?
No, Heroku don't provide any facility to do that. If you want to achieve something similar you would have to do it in the code of your application.
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.