EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)

Connecting to EC2 running in the private subnet of AWS VPC from your DevBox.

Walkthrough video

Architecture Diagram

Existing EC2

Step 1: Accessing EC2 from a DevBox

1. Follow the Connecting to AWS guide.
2. Go to Amazon EC2 > Instances > Your Instance.
3. Click on Connect. You will see the commands for accessing it.
4. Go to DevBox and make a copy of the key pair.
5. Connect to EC2 machine:

ssh -i "path/to/key.pem" username@instance-ip

New EC2 Machine

Step 1: Creating an EC2 Instance

1. Follow the Connecting to AWS guide.
2. Go to Amazon EC2 > Instances > Launch Instances.
3. Enter the name of the instance.
4. Use one of the supported linux distros.
5. Choose the Instance type.
6. Create a new key pair and save it.
7. In the Network settings, click on edit and choose the VPC where your bastion host is running, the private subnet and the security group which allows inbound access to VPC.

Step 2: Accessing EC2 from a DevBox

1. Go to the DevBox and make a copy of the key pair.
2. Connect to the desired EC2 instance using ssh and the new key pair:

ssh -i "path/to/key.pem" username@instance-ip