private VPC connectivity to social medias

Question

Hi team,

we are working in accelerator account AWS ASEA, that has no outbound connectivity

we can not connect to internet to download anything (libraries, ....)

the VPC is private only.

our task is to fetch data from twitter  and do 
- twitter data processing
- sentiment Analysis
..

we would like to know **if there is a way to achieve this when our account doesn't have outbound(internet) connectivity**?

could you please advice best practices/architecture to do this scenarios (twitter data processing, sentiment Analysis) ?

Thank you

Answer

If your AWS account has no outbound connectivity to the internet, one way to fetch data from external sources like Twitter and perform data processing is by setting up a proxy server in a different AWS account or VPC with internet access.

- Deploy a proxy server, like Squid or Nginx, in another AWS account or VPC that has internet access. Configure the security groups and network ACLs to allow inbound traffic from your private VPC and outbound traffic to the internet.
- Establish a VPC peering connection between your private VPC and the VPC where the proxy server is running. 
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/peering/what-is-vpc-peering.html
-  Update your applications running in the private VPC to use the proxy server for outbound traffic.

private VPC connectivity to social medias

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