How to connect your LAN to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
I had originally written this article for xmodulo . If you have a lot of your services hosted in the Amazon AWS public cloud, and are looking for ways to access your leased AWS resources in a secure way, this article is for you. Initially you started out accessing Amazon AWS over the public Internet. Over time, you have migrated more and more services to your AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using the architecture of your choice -- multi-tiered servers, load balancers, auto-scaled, managed database, hosting services internal to your organization, and so on. Now you realize that routing all your traffic to and from AWS over the public Internet is no longer viable because of security concerns and/or company policies. Moreover, it makes more sense to access services internal to your company using private IP addresses. Amazon AWS provides multiple options if you want to access your Amazon VPC's private IP address space directly from your LAN. All these options are secure as the tra...