If you are an organization building solutions on AWS, then you can easily access your resources and services via the internet, as many of you would have already experienced from using the AWS Management Console. From here, you can configure, deploy, and architect your infrastructure using the multitude of services that AWS offers. From a logical perspective, using the internet to connect to your AWS environment from your on-premises environment would look as follows:
However, you might want to establish a more secure connection to these resources and connect to them as if they were an extension of your own internal network. To do this effectively and securely, you would need to enforce a private connection between your on-premises environment and AWS. This can be achieved via a couple of different connectivity options:
- By using a VPN connection
- By using a Direct Connect connection
In the following sections of this chapter, we will discuss both of...