Connecting home network to AWS?

[debian0001]

Anyone know if there's a easy way to connect to AWS from a Comcast internet connection that doesn't have a static internet IP? I am hoping there is some sort of dynamic way that my home connection can change IPs but still have the proper ways to validate that it can connect to my AWS network...

 

[debian0001]

I have found out I can use Server 2012 R2, but will that let me use my Windows 10 desktop to route through 2012 R2 to AWS?? Still digging in..

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Do you mean you want it so that you can make incoming connections to your home environment regardless of what your home IP is? If that's what you want, what you're looking for in a Dynamic DNS service. There's DynDNS, No-IP, and a slew of others out there.

In each case, you'll need a method of updating your home's WAN IP with your remote Dynamic DNS profile. This requires either manual updating by you, or by using an application that determines your WAN IP and updates your account automatically. It may be worth looking into your home router, and many home routers offer integration with several of the Dynamic DNS providers out there.

Either way, instead of using an IP, you'll use the Dynamic DNS domain name that you'll create during the setup process to access whatever you need.

 

[Crusty]

You can run an OpenVPN instance on EC2 and configure your home router or PC to build a tunnel to it. It will work just fine as long as you have a static IP on the server endpoint running EC2.

 

[imagoon]

AWS VPN.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/vpn-connections.html

 

[LeatherNeck]

If you're looking for a way for an external service to always "know" your dynamic IP you can use a service like no-ip.com. You can set up a free host on the service and then load the no-ip.com client on your home system. As the dynamic IP of your router changes then client will report the assigned IP so that your host name will always resolve to your router.