Setup AWS Client VPN & Access Private AWS Resources Across VPCs

[@stijnvanorbeek8997]

Great Tutorial. I have been trying to make this work for a while and this finally got me there. As some comments mentioned, user revocation isn't very clear from the (otherwise excellent) video: When using mutual auth. you can use the generated (and to ACM uploaded) server cert for both 'server' and 'client' when creating the end-point. There is no need to upload individual client certs to ACM. Revoking a user can be done by: ./easyrsa revoke user1 and then generating a revocation list: ./easyrsa gen-crl. This list can be imported over the AWS CLI or Console.

[@rahulthapa5201]

Sir your video's are awesome and your voice too. I recently passed solution architect associate and now going for solution architect professional and this types of video's really help me. Thank you sir.

[@hussainkathawala6894]

Thanks, Prasad for this! The content you have shared in 18 Min is up to the mark. Great one man!

[@alekseykozin8108]

Yo, Prasad, thank you for your tutorial, it saved me 10h of googling. Idk why creating a VPN still such a hassle.

[@how-totech8934]

wait, why did use a public address 20.0.0.0/16 in the client IPv4 CIDR?

[@kgecme]

Amazing clarity! Great job

[@ruliezz]

Why do you fill in a username and password during VPN connection if you're using client certification? This is not clear to me.

[@subanana]

Superb video Prasad, crisp & clear, thanks. Also, have a quick question... BTW what are the MAC Terminal software & Text / Code editor you have used on this video, please?

[@pexao]

Thanks for sharing, my only doubt is about the AD server, did you setup the Simple AD and manage all users from there? I mean, you create and set up a user/pass there and they are replicated to VPN (in the moment of connection?), right? Excellent job for the video.

[@benneigher356]

Awesome video. It would help me to see what the VPN CIDR blocks look like for these subnets. I'm having trouble figuring out what I should be putting in for the Client CIDR in the Client VPN Endpoint, and the associations / route tables. Seeing cidr block overlaps / unable to access internet once VPN is established (checked security groups)

[@suryanshtk8623]

Concise, crisp and clear..great work

[@CatsAndCode]

Great tuturial

[@tz0py1]

Great video. Well explained ! Thank you. Keep building videos like this! 🙏

[@nseemakurty]

Well orchestrated demo. I liked it. Keep producing such demos. Thanks Prasad

[@bluenyt09]

awesome tutorial video Prasad !!!

[@sridharkocharlakota2569]

Great video. Well done, Prasad!

[@MatheusLozano]

Amazing video, Prasad !! Many thanks for sharing, it really helped me

[@eddevitt9415]

Good video! I am assuming you are creating a new certificate and key for every VPN user or are you using the same certificates and keys for multiple users?

[@AmeenAltajer]

Thanks Prasad, very helpful!

[@iamrussz]

Hi, I used this approach earlier and I am now connected to the VPN, but i can't browse anything on the internet or even ping my server, any ideas what should I do?

[@ashokpareek6248]

just quick feedback - your demo is hardly visible because of resolution you are using while recording it. also can you tell us which tool are you using to draw the aws architecture diagram ?

[@PrasadDomala]

Thanks for the feedback. Will fix it. I use draw.io

[@monirulislam2508]

Hi Prasad - How do we setup AWS Client VPN for VPC connected using TX Gateway? The security group asscociated with the VPN end-point works pperfectly fine with the VPC peering setup, but does not work for TX setup. Appreciate if you could share any pointer.

[@ashispadhi8293]

The AWS commands are not recognized by PowerShell, so I'm unable to create the certificates. How can I fix this?

[@user-nj5er1bd1y]

Good, neat and clear explanation

[@shef7915]

Awsome video prasad.

[@BabyMonkeyHouse-b8y]

Hello i want to know if we don't have AD on Premise server, Can we use Cloud Directory from AWS? and this is create for manage VPN User?

[@ankurjain631]

Awesome video. one question what value should i enter in username and password for connecting to vpn

[@jishaashokan1368]

Hi, when my VPN client connects to the end point, I lose the outside internet access. I have enabled split tunnelling. What am I missing?

[@ibmuser13]

thanks for sharing Prasad. liked and sub'd! had a question - so you cannot associate multiple subnets from the same AZ for the target networks. Meaning, per AZ, you can only have users connect to 1 subnet inside a given AZ? isn't that a big limitation i.e. if the instances are spread across multiple subnets in a given AZ? thanks..

[@dilipmys]

Nice explanation

[@nichenjie]

Is there a data transfer fee associated with the Client VPN? I don't see it in the pricing page. So if not, then wouldn't it be cheaper to download from S3 through a Client VPN connection as opposed to through internet directly?

[@vighneshpp]

Excellent Demo. To the point! Subscribed

[@sly5]

Great job, keep up the good work.

[@manikandani5201]

Great explanation. But, How to make login credentials and pop-up login dialog when we try to connect through client.

[@RV4U22]

Thank you so much for your tutorials! :)

[@jorgesemai19]

what credentials you are using in te Vpn client? I don't understand that part

[@SandeepSingh-hn6it]

Greate Totorial, but noticed while you explain that your cursor should be on that point which is not there.

[@SuperRider-RS]

I have a member account, created okta IDP on that and associated to the vpn endpoint, authenticating against okta user (linked to organization account's user) but there is no way to set authorization rule in member account because the user itself doesn't exist here but only as SSO in organization account, hence unable to reach teh cidr setup in the member account for vpn.

[@nachi160]

A big thanks to you. :)

[@gunasekhar1102]

If you are outside of Aws then how do you access the private subnets of the client endpoints. which you are providing in the aws VPN clients. I think we have to give public subnets in the aws VPN clients

[@AndreaCavenago]

Very good video, thank you. Dumb question: If I want to use mutual authentication only assigning a certificate to each user, does this mean that I have to create a Client VPN Endpoint for each user? Thanks!

[@PrasadDomala]

You don’t need an endpoint fir each user. You might need a certificate for each client and upload to ACM. The certs must be trusted by the Root CA of the server cert. or you can use the same cert for all your clients which is not secure.

[@luisbendezu8270]

@@PrasadDomala can you please make a demo of many certs? (many users using different certs)

[@12manysports]

Very well done video. Thanks

[@anuragsharma1878]

Can we change my laptop's public IP address if using the AWS client VPN service?

[@abhishekmahawar3082]

I did the same but unable to ping ec2 and also what's my ip websites showing my local ip

[@ArunKumar_DA]

@prasad I have a doubt!! How are we adding the security group I'd to other vpc network's SG? Like should I create one!! Do u mind sharing the inbound and outbound rules of the prod and Dev SG would also be helpful

[@RRc29]

How can you create the Simple AD user? is not possible by WEB?

[@SkyMusiz]

Hi Prasad, we have configured mutual authentication, and we are able to connect to VPN but unable to migrate client system to Domain after VPN connection. how to achieve this ?

[@reimarosenuno7901]

Hi, How to solve problem with amazon workspace "An unknown error occurred" Thank you

[@2mahender]

when was this tooL(AWS Client VPN SEtup) was released by AWS?, we were using OpenVPN till now

[@CeCaPhoto]

Great tutorial!!! I'm having an issue. I was able to set up the AWS Client VPN endpoint and I authenticated successfully on a Windows 10 machine using the AWS VPN software. I am unable to ping my Windows EC2 instance and therefore, I can't remote desktop to it. Is this a capability I should have with AWS Client VPN? Thank you for your help here!

[@pauldev8967]

Thanks for the video. I got 1 question: 1. Is it possible not to use AWS Directory Service for authentication with the VPN client? 2. Is that possible to use AWS SSO? It's not very handy to ask my teammates to remember another username/password and also offer security policies to those credentials (i.e. MFA, password expiration)

[@pauldev8967]

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[@anilkumar455]

I am using SSL certificated which is purchased. but when i am connecting i a getting error. error=unable to get issuer certificate: C=US, O=DigiCert Inc, CN=DigiCert TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1 OpenSSL: error:1416F086:SSL routines:tls_process_server_certificate:certificate verify failed How to fix this ?

[@nawangchegenlama4352]

Can we use cognito for user mgmt and authentication

[@dilipmys]

Hi Prasad Thanks for the video . One question " In the last you haveentioned that download the certificate to your local machine . How to do that ?

[@JhonOlivares]

Why I'm loss the Internet after successfully VPN connection?

[@Hard_Qs]

what does mutual auth get you if you are using username and password? HOW do you get to use both so some users use the client/key combo and some use saml(AD)?

[@HellCRICKET]

From where u have provided AD username & password

[@Mauricio.Herrera]

Hi, great tutorial, can you please tell which terminal client are you using on Mac?

[@PrasadDomala]

Thanks. I use iterm2.

[@darekjanowski9467]

Very good instruction, thank you for creating this. I managed to configure everything using certificate based authentication. Successfully tested connection to my VPC. The requirement is to secure connection to our dev AWS CloudFront distribution. I can't find a way to do it, is this even possible?

[@nichenjie]

Can you elaborate more? What does secure connection to cloudfront mean? CloudFront is a public internet-facing CDN, so it doesn't live in your VPC.

[@PrasadDomala]

Cloudfront is a public global edge service. You can use certificates and WAF to secure CloudFront. You can also implement Lambda@edge to control requests to cloudfront. You can also whitelist CloudFront IPs in your firewall.

[@VandersonT_]

Awesome job man!!! Very helpful. Thanks very much for that.

[@SellvaXYZ]

Hi Prasad, great video, helped me a lot. One question, when I am connected my internet is extremely slow then after a couple minutes I can only access my resources on AWS, no www anymore. Please, do you have any orientation?

[@fabiomartinsnet]

Hi Julio! the same happened to me. In my case, I just had to add a default route 0.0.0.0/0

[@hakimhairon4703]

how to declare certificate path for windows connection ?

[@augustoalonso6711]

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[@everywwswe]

I am confused about giving VPC access to AWS services and giving user IAM access ? Is the same? What is the difference ? I understand by giving VPC access , he can run through our AWS console. Is the same as giving someone IAM user role ?

[@PrasadDomala]

I don't understand what you meant to be honest. Access to AWS is done using IAM roles & policies and these roles can be assigned to IAM users. Using this access Users can login to AWS console / CLI (using AccessKeys) / SDK. VPC is a private Cloud. IAM users with service level access can interact with resources within VPC. Not sure if I answered your question. If not, can you elaborate your question ?

[@everywwswe]

Prasad Domala yea Sorry for my confused question. My point is one of my vendor from different country required to access our AWS platform. For that, I have to create AWS IAM account and Client VPN access to them. I am still confused why I need to create VPN again as I alrdy create Aws IAM user acc?

[@PrasadDomala]

IAM Access is different from Client VPN Access. VPN Access is required to access private resources with in the VPC. For example, if you have a private EC2 instance, it cant be accessed outside the VPC. You need to have a VPN / Bastion host to access Private Resources. VPN is not for console access. AWS console is publicly accessible, you don't need VPN for that.

[@everywwswe]

Prasad Domala oh.. a little bit clear. So the IAM is just console access to check what services are using in our AWS For Vpn is if there is some restriction made in our service, the external can use to enter our same private network with that VPN access? Correct?

[@everywwswe]

@@PrasadDomala one question, to giving vpn access to external users, which one should i choose - vpn client or site to site VPN in AWS? Thanks

[@RaptorDragoon]

how do enable internet traffic using this approach

[@pareshsolanki1674]

Excellent Demo. Can you please guide me from where to can I add another user auth in same endpoint?

[@manivhannankanags9959]

Thanks for the awesome video. I am looking for a site-to-site VPN solution to connect our onsite customers to AWS cloud. Instead of using AWS VPN, can we use any OpenVPN solution from AWS end and terminate the tunnel to our customers onsite router/firewall?

[@PrasadDomala]

Yes you can setup your own VPN on EC2 using OpenVPN or any other supported VPN software.

[@manivhannankanags9959]

@@PrasadDomala Will it support HA or hot swap?

[@letsspeakbharath]

Super !!! Are you gng to start AWS tutorial ??? Iam happy

[@SuperDilip21]

Good video. I have a question can we configure client VPN across regions? like site-to-site VPN?

[@PrasadDomala]

Client VPN uses VPC peering for cross VPC access. As VPC peering can be achieved inter-region, you can have client VPN across regions.

[@darekjanowski9467]

@@PrasadDomala very good instructions!. One question, is it possible to secured connection to Cloudfront distribution. Meaning, dev user would be able to open a website only when connected via Client VPN. Thank you!

[@blessingofgod1]

What should be the path format in vpn client configuration file for a locally stored client cert?

[@PrasadDomala]

You can save the config file anywhere you want. You just need to point your Client VPN software to your config file location.

[@Babayaga130]

cool video just zoom in would be much better to see ! cheers

[@sandeepsharma-do5vh]

For multiple end users we need to create multiple client and server certificate ? If i have 10 users and i want to permit these 10 users on a vpn i have created, so have i need to create 10 clients and 10 server certificate ?

[@PrasadDomala]

You need just one server certificate. Creating multiple client certificates is optional but recommended. If can use a single client certificate for all users but you cant revoke access to single user if you use single client certificate.

[@sandeepsharma-do5vh]

@@PrasadDomala So i need to create multiple client vpn endpoint right ? For each client i need to create vpn endpoint and client certificate ? Server certificate could be same .

[@tomaszczubkowski]

@@sandeepsharma-do5vh This is also my confusion and I join the question whether I have to create a separate vpn endpoint for each user? If so, as I understand after the user leaves the organization, I delete his Ednpoint VPN and Client Certificate. Is this true? If this is the case, do I pay additional AWS (AWS Client VPN endpoint association) fees for each VPN endpoint? If this is the case then mutual connection is very expensive when using separate certificates for each user. So what is the best strategy, while maintaining reasonable costs for organizations with a large flow of employees?

[@tomaszczubkowski]

@@PrasadDomala I created one VPN endpoint for the server and user1 credentials created. I added both certificates to the Certification Manager. I connected to the user1 user configuration without any problems. I have created a certificate for user2. I did not add it to the Certification Manager and also connected to the configuration for user2 to the same endpoint. Why? I expected that the connection could be made only if the user2 certificate was added in Ceryfication Manager. Thanks for answer.

[@PrasadDomala]

Separate endpoint for each user is not required. If you are able to connect as user2, its more likely that you are using the same certificate. Check your VPN confit file and see if you are using the same certificate.

[@sandeepsharma-do5vh]

How can authenticate users via azure active directory in VPN endpoints

[@PrasadDomala]

You need to create AD connector for your Azure AD and AD Connector can be used with Client VPN endpoint

[@sluge1]

Text in video is too small!

[@keattiyosyothinraungrongti2716]

good tutorial but so fast la