[Novalug] AWS for VPN

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Thu Mar 15 10:02:01 EDT 2012


On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 9:51 AM, John Atkeson <jcatkeson@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am following the directions Miles posted:
> http://holgr.com/blog/2009/06/setting-up-openvpn-on-amazons-ec2/
>
> OK I've signed up an EC2 account and am about to create a VM instance.
>  Two questions before proceeding:
>
> The tutorial above is based on Fedora 8, which may be a bit dated.
> Would the people in this thread recommend a different community AMI,
> or creating a new AMI from scratch (boot to ISO)?
>
> Just to be sure, are all community AMIs in the free tier?

I use QuickStart and find an instance w/ a GOLD STAR. Those have micro
(free) instances.

In the Community AMI, those are pre-configured images. There are some
OpenVPN instances you can use. I would personally start w/ a
quickstart, update it and then add the bits needed. A little more work
but good practice.

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