Private-VPN

Setting up a Private VPN on Amazon AWS Cloud using CloudFormation

Requirements

• AWS Account
• AWS Cli

How to setup VPN

• Configure aws cli on local computer using:

aws configure

Note: Set default region to us-west-2

• In pptp.json file change ParameterValue of VPNUsername and VPNPassword

• Run create.sh bash script using:

./create.sh <stack-name> pptp.yaml pptp.json

Note: Replace <stack-name> with name of your choice ex: ./create.sh vpn pptp.yaml pptp.json

Note: If permission denied run chmod +x create.sh and then ./create.sh vpn pptp.yaml pptp.json

You will get stack id in response if everything went right

Press q or Ctrl+C to return to Console

Wait for a minute or two for AWS EC2 instance to setup

• Run getIp.sh to get the ip address of the EC2 instance. If you get None then re-run after one or two minute

./getIp.sh <stack-name>

Note: Replace <stack-name> with the name of stack ex: ./getIp.sh vpn

Note: If permission denied run chmod +x getIp.sh and then ./getIp.sh vpn

This will be your ip address. Copy this Ip Adress and setup VPN on your device and use this Ip address as gateway. Username and Password will be what use used in the pptp.json file while replacing the parameter value.
Default Username: user1234 and Password: pass1234

• To delete the server run delete.sh

./delete.sh <stack-name>

Note: Replace <stack-name> with the name of stack ex: ./delete.sh vpn

Note: If permission denied run chmod +x delete.sh and then ./delete.sh vpn

Note: AWS provide 750 hours per month of EC2 in its free tier so you won't occur charges as long as you dont exceed 750 hours. If you use more than one EC2 instance it is recommended to delete the EC2 instance when not using it. Although you have to set VPN connection on your device everytime if you delete server as the Ip Address will change.

On deleting the stack for the first time do verify that stack has been deleted successfully using AWS Console and going to CloudFormation.

Currently the only region supported is us-west-2.
If you want to run a server in specific region then replace us-west-2 with your required region in create.sh, getIp.sh and delete.sh file.
Also include mapping of your region to the AMI in pptp.yaml file.