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Re: How to set up your own free VPN server on AWS

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Post by kasabali » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 6:43 PM UTC

Beware that free tier has 15 GB upload limit.

  Data Transfer
  
  15 GB of bandwidth out aggregated across all AWS services*

Re: How to set up your own free VPN server on AWS

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Post by azurelogic » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 6:48 PM UTC

I was really hoping this would be a more generic tutorial for various Linux flavors. I failed miserably at setting up L2TP IPSec last time I tried.

Re: How to set up your own free VPN server on AWS

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Post by Couto » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 6:48 PM UTC

pacofvf wrote: post #10

desdiv wrote: post #4

Streisand[0] also only takes about 10 times, but with fewer mouse clicks and is much, much more secure. By default it tunnels OpenVPN over stunnel so that your connections looks exactly like regular SSL sessions (albeit SSL sessions that last for months at a time). https://github.com/jlund/streisand

is there a way to use streisand at an existing instance of EC2/DO ?

Yes.

Streisand is just a bundle of ansible playbooks so it can easily be deployed on any server that meets the requirements: Debian 7 or similar.

It also has a nice menu to deploy to Amazon, Linode, Digital Ocean and Rackspace without extra effort.

Re: How to set up your own free VPN server on AWS

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Post by goalo » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 6:50 PM UTC

kasabali wrote: post #11

Beware that free tier has 15 GB upload limit. from https://aws.amazon.com/free/ : Data Transfer 15 GB of bandwidth out aggregated across all AWS services*

Yes, It is per month and further traffic costs $0.09 / GB

Re: How to set up your own free VPN server on AWS

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Post by scintill76 » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 7:18 PM UTC

> However, it has always been hard to trust a VPN provider who could potentially log and intercept your internet traffic!

Later:

> Then under Template, Source, select “Specify an Amazon S3 template URL” and paste in this URL https://s3.amazonaws.com/webdigi/VPN/Unified-Cloud-Formation... and then click Next.

Now you're just trusting your obscure VPN machine-image provider not to log and intercept your traffic! (Or am I misunderstanding what using this URL does?)

Like another commenter, I was sort of hoping for something more generic.

Re: How to set up your own free VPN server on AWS

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Post by JosephRedfern » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 7:22 PM UTC

scintill76 wrote: post #15

> However, it has always been hard to trust a VPN provider who could potentially log and intercept your internet traffic! Later: > Then under Template, Source, select “Specify an Amazon S3 template URL” and paste in this URL https://s3.amazonaws.com/webdigi/VPN/Unified-Cloud-Formation... and then click Next. Now you're just trusting your obscure VPN machine-image provider not to log and intercept your traffic! (Or am…

I wrote a pretty generic blog post (not AWS specific) a couple of years ago about how to quickly set up a VPN Server: https://redfern.me/quick-and-dirty-vpn-server-with-pptpd/

Re: How to set up your own free VPN server on AWS

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Post by 2bluesc » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 7:28 PM UTC

I created a Docker image that runs OpenVPN and wraps the verbose key and cert generation process. Works on any cloud provider that runs Docker instances (I try to avoid OpenVZ).

https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/kylemanna/openvpn/

https://github.com/kylemanna/docker-openvpn

Re: How to set up your own free VPN server on AWS

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Post by hu_me » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 7:33 PM UTC

xutopia wrote: post #9

They speak of a free tier for new AWS customers but how much does it cost if we're not a new customer?

the same tiered machine running for a full month costs about 7usd.

Re: How to set up your own free VPN server on AWS

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Post by BrianHutch » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 7:41 PM UTC

Here is another example using Digital Ocean. This looks complicated but is very simple: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...

If you want to use Docker: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-run-...

Re: How to set up your own free VPN server on AWS

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Post by fit2rule » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 7:59 PM UTC

desdiv wrote: post #4

Streisand[0] also only takes about 10 times, but with fewer mouse clicks and is much, much more secure. By default it tunnels OpenVPN over stunnel so that your connections looks exactly like regular SSL sessions (albeit SSL sessions that last for months at a time). https://github.com/jlund/streisand

Streisand is amazing. I did the VPN setup that is mentioned in the OP, and it worked well .. but then I read your comment and set it up too .. and its just lightyears ahead in terms of what you get out of the process at the end.