Ideally, you need a VPN tunnel between your on premises desktops and the AWS VPCs. However, there is a shorter cut to accomplish a secured, over the internet connection without setting up a VPN Tunnel.

This involves installing a SOCKS Proxy server on your local desktop – and also a plugin (FoxyProxy) for your browser.

Once you configure both the SOCKS proxy server and FoxyProxy, you should have a secure  connection (even though it is over the internet) to your AWS resources. In the FoxyProxy configuration, you would provide the ARN of an AWS resource to connect to. This ARN resource would most likely belong to an EC2 instance (like a bastion host)

Anuj holds professional certifications in Google Cloud, AWS as well as certifications in Docker and App Performance Tools such as New Relic. He specializes in Cloud Security, Data Encryption and Container Technologies.

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