Need Help with VPN/VPC tunneling

Question

Hi as of now OUR RDS instances publicly accessible as third party service Hevo accessing it. So we need to disable RDS accessing publicly. As per some analysis came to know with VPC/VPN tunnelling it will be achieved. 
Please help me with it.

Regards,
Rajesh Khanna B

Answer

This is definitely possible as mentioned in the [documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_VPC.Scenarios.html)

This [VPN documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpn/latest/s2svpn/SetUpVPNConnections.html) will guide you step-by-step on how to configure site-to-site VPN.

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**A DB instance in a VPC accessed by a private network**

If your DB instance isn't publicly accessible, you have the following options for accessing it from a private network:

* An AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection. For more information, see What is AWS Site-to-Site VPN?
* An AWS Direct Connect connection. For more information, see What is AWS Direct Connect?

The following diagram shows a scenario with an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection.

![Enter image description here](/media/postImages/original/IME7uhYWOmQu2WPjy0okYeyQ)

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Answer

Hi thank you for asking,

As additional of above answer, I would to give some option if you want to connect into your db private from your local computer not from data center. you can consider using client-vpn (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/accessing-an-amazon-rds-instance-remotely-using-aws-client-vpn/) and software-based vpn from our makerplace: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/search/results?searchTerms=openvpn.

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