AWS Client VPN Integrations

Access Server gives you the ability to rapidly deploy a secure remote access solution with a web-based administration interface — all on general purpose computing hardware or virtual machines. Your team will have access to the built-in OpenVPN Connect App and bundled connection profiles. All without adding a ton of extra work to your IT to-do list. OpenVPN Access Server is a full-featured SSL self-hosted VPN software solution that integrates OpenVPN server capabilities, enterprise management capabilities, simplified OpenVPN Connect UI, and OpenVPN Client software packages that accommodate Windows, MAC, and Linux, mobile OS (Android and iOS) environments. OpenVPN Access Server supports a wide range of configurations, including secure and granular remote access to internal network and/ or private cloud network resources and applications with fine-grained access control. OpenVPN also has a cloud-delivered solution called CloudConnexa.

Whether you're looking for compute power, database storage, content delivery, or other functionality, AWS has the services to help you build sophisticated applications with increased flexibility, scalability and reliability. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 175 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster. AWS has significantly more services, and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider–from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. This makes it faster, easier, and more cost effective to move your existing applications to the cloud.

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory (AD), enables your directory-aware workloads and AWS resources to use managed Active Directory (AD) in AWS. AWS Managed Microsoft AD is built on actual Microsoft AD and does not require you to synchronize or replicate data from your existing Active Directory to the cloud. You can use the standard AD administration tools and take advantage of the built-in AD features, such as Group Policy and single sign-on. With AWS Managed Microsoft AD, you can easily join Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS for SQL Server instances to your domain, and use AWS End User Computing (EUC) services, such as Amazon WorkSpaces, with AD users and groups. AWS Managed Microsoft AD makes it easy to migrate AD-dependent applications and Windows workloads to AWS. With AWS Managed Microsoft AD, you can use Group Policies to manage EC2 instances and run AD-dependent applications in the AWS Cloud.

Active Directory stores information about objects on the network and makes this information easy for administrators and users to find and use. Active Directory uses a structured data store as the basis for a logical, hierarchical organization of directory information. This data store, also known as the directory, contains information about Active Directory objects. These objects typically include shared resources such as servers, volumes, printers, and the network user and computer accounts. For more information about the Active Directory data store, see Directory data store. Security is integrated with Active Directory through logon authentication and access control to objects in the directory. With a single network logon, administrators can manage directory data and organization throughout their network, and authorized network users can access resources anywhere on the network. Policy-based administration eases the management of even the most complex network.

AWS Site-to-Site VPN is a fully managed service that establishes secure connections between your on-premises networks and AWS resources using IPsec tunnels. Each VPN connection includes two tunnels, each terminating in a different availability zone, to provide increased availability to your VPC. If there's a device failure within AWS, your VPN connection automatically fails over to the second tunnel so that your access isn't interrupted. For globally distributed applications, the accelerated Site-to-Site VPN option provides even greater performance by working with AWS Global Accelerator to intelligently route your traffic to the nearest AWS network endpoint with the best performance. AWS Site-to-Site VPN supports both static and dynamic routing options, including BGP peering, to give you flexibility in your routing configuration. It also supports NAT traversal, allowing you to use private IP addresses on private networks behind routers with a single public IP address.

AWS Transit Gateway is a fully managed service that connects Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and on-premises networks through a central hub, simplifying network architecture and eliminating complex peering relationships. Acting as a scalable cloud router, it allows each new connection to be made only once. Transit Gateway supports dynamic and static layer 3 routing between VPCs and VPNs, with routes determining the next hop based on the destination IP address. It enables VPN connections between the Transit Gateway and on-premises gateways, supporting Equal Cost Multipath (ECMP) routing to increase bandwidth by load-balancing traffic over multiple paths. AWS Transit Gateway Connect facilitates native integration of Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) appliances into AWS using standard protocols like GRE and BGP, enhancing bandwidth and supporting dynamic routing.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) is a service that lets you launch AWS resources in a logically isolated virtual network that you define. You have complete control over your virtual networking environment, including selection of your own IP address range, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and network gateways. You can use both IPv4 and IPv6 for most resources in your virtual private cloud, helping to ensure secure and easy access to resources and applications. As one of AWS's foundational services, Amazon VPC makes it easy to customize your VPC's network configuration. You can create a public-facing subnet for your web servers that have access to the internet. It also lets you place your backend systems, such as databases or application servers, in a private-facing subnet with no internet access.

AWS VPN enables secure connections between on-premises networks and AWS Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) using IPsec VPN tunnels. Each connection includes two tunnels for high availability, terminating in different availability zones to ensure resilience. It supports both static and dynamic routing with BGP, and offers customizable tunnel options, including inside tunnel IP addresses, pre-shared keys, and BGP Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs). Accelerated Site-to-Site VPN leverages AWS Global Accelerator to route traffic through the nearest AWS edge location, improving performance by reducing latency and jitter. AWS Client VPN is a fully managed, elastic VPN service that allows users to securely access AWS and on-premises resources from any location using an OpenVPN-based client. It supports authentication through Active Directory, mutual certificate authentication, and SAML-based federated authentication.