On Wed, 2018-03-28 at 23:40 +0000, Aaron Were wrote:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-an-ope nvpn-server-on-ubuntu-16-04
Works great in an Amazon VPC instead of paying extra for their VPN.
Yeeeesss.... but: - it's only cheaper if you use a t2.micro or something, otherwise the EC2 costs will equal or exceed the AWS VPN costs - unless you choose a pretty expensive instance type, your bandwidth will be very limited - the AWS VPN can shift data much, MUCH faster than most instance types. - the AWS VPN is essentially zero-maintenance after setup. The platform does not require securing, updating, patching or whatever. So do the maths (and remember to include traffic costs) before you assume that an instance-based VPN will be better than an AWS Hardware VPN. It depends a lot on how much traffic you have, and whether you have the required skills and time to support it. The AWS Hardware VPN works well with MikroTiks: http://biplane.com.au/blog/?p=406 Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (kauer@nullarbor.com.au) work +61 2 64957435 http://www.nullarbor.com.au mobile +61 428 957160 GPG fingerprint: 8454 EE43 6215 B6DD 1B4D 9D8D 984D 7BA1 7378 A38D Old fingerprint: 58F8 09D4 97E4 D74A 0940 44BC 8D6D C28C 3BC9 B0CB