A VPN allows you to create a secure tunnel for network traffic between your on-premises data center and your AWS account using the Internet Security Protocol (IpSec). AWS VPN functionality comes in several distinct flavors, as follows:
- A managed VPN service to enable clients to connect to your AWS VPC and on-premises environments. Users connect to the VPN using a client based on the OpenVPN standard.
- CloudHub, which an AWS service that allows you to create a secure network route between remote office locations.
- Site-to-Site VPN, which is a secure connection between your data center and your VPC.
In this recipe, we will show you how to set up a VPN connection between your data center and your VPC. The benefit of creating a link like this is that all the data transfers between the two sites are sent through a secure IPSec tunnel, instead...
