Pre-configured EC2 VPN AMI

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JoshStrange picture JoshStrange · Jan 9, 2012 · Viewed 12.3k times · Source

I have been google-ing around for the answer to this for that last hour or so but can't find anything on it. I would like to have pre-configured ami for AWS EC2 that will let me spin up an instance and ssh in and set user/pass for people to VPN though the instance. Of course my dream would be some sort of web interface for managing/monitoring/allocating VPN access but I assume that is far-fetched and would never be offered for free.

What I am looking for is this: AMI running on micro instance OpenVPN installed and ready to go Little-no config needed

What I think that would look like is that I could start an instance of this ami, ssh in and add user/pass to OpenVPN and be using my instance as a VPN server (Using AWS's public IP) in less than 10 min without running countless commands to install all the needed programs.

There is a possibility that I am completely wrong in what I am trying to do and if that is the case just let me know I'm an idiot. Thank you for any help!

Answer

sarfata picture sarfata · Aug 2, 2012

It's not a pre-built API but I have published a startup script to setup an Amazon EC2 instance with IPSec/L2TP VPN. You can do it in less than 5 minutes, you dont even need to actually log into the machine.

The good thing with IPSec/L2TP: it works out of the box for most clients (tested with Mac OS Lion and Mountain Lion).

It is here: https://github.com/sarfata/voodooprivacy And here: http://www.sarfata.org/posts/setting-up-an-amazon-vpn-server.md

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