Free Tier- AWS CLOUD

In your first year includes

• 750 hours of t2.micro (or t3.micro in the Regions in which t2.micro is unavailable) instance usage on free tier AMIs per month,
• 30 GiB of EBS storage,
• 2 million IOs,
• 1 GB of snapshots
• 100 GB of bandwidth to the internet

Steps to Install open VPN in AWS

• Choose whichever that shows Eligble for FREE TIER Create a key pair name it and download as
• .ppk : For putty login
• .pem : for SSH

Created instance will be like

There will be other instances like this

https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/ 

(This will be the Indian Server)

https://ap-south-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=ap-south-1

Connecting VM Instances:

• Right click on instance and choose CONNECT, That will contains the code for connecting the server
• to change the permission (If needed)

chmod 400 openvpn_serverkey.pem 

• to access it

ssh -i "vpn-aws-mumbai.pem" root@ec2-<IP>.ap-south-1.compute.amazonaws.com 

• After that, Agree the terms
• After sucess, the root will be changed

Initial Configuration Complete!

You can now continue configuring OpenVPN Access Server by
directing your Web browser to this URL:

https://<IP>:<PORT>/admin
Login as "openvpn" with the same password used to authenticate
to this UNIX host.

During normal operation, OpenVPN AS can be accessed via these URLs:
Admin  UI: https://<IP>:<PORT>/admin
Client UI: https://<IP>:<PORT>/

See the Release Notes for this release at:
https://openvpn.net/vpn-server-resources/release-notes/

Please login as the user "openvpnas" rather than the user "root".

Connection to ec2-<IP>.ap-south-1.compute.amazonaws.com closed.

• so run this instead after that

ssh -i "vpn-aws-mumbai.pem" openvpnas@ec2-<IP>.ap-south-1.compute.amazonaws.com to access it 

Change the password by

sudo passwd openvpn

• Then login to Admin UI: https://<IP>:<PORT>/admin with ID as openvpn and changed password
• Then go to configuration > VPN Settings > Routing >
• Should client Internet traffic be routed through the VPN? To YES
• Click Save
• Click Update running server on the top

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https://<IP>:<PORT>

To download the software after LOGIN

Add new user by Going to USER MANAGERMENT > User Permissions, Allow new user, allow autologin, then set a new password (BY CLICKING EDIT BUTTON) THen Save and Restart the machine

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PUTY GENERATOR

Loads > .pem Generates >.ppk file

TO user login via PUTTY and not via SSH

Open PUTTY Host name is : the public IP

Login : root If Like we changed using openvpn the Changed vpn will be openvpnas

Connection >SSH>Auth > Upload the .ppk file