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After clicking the box go ahead and click “Next: Add Storage.” Since this is going into the default VPC and a public subnet, most settings can be left alone with the exception of *Enable termination protection* as we do not want our VPN being terminated on accident. On the *Step 3: Configure Instance Details* page you will see your instance details.

Once you find the appropriate AMI press “Select.” We are going to use a t2.Micro for our demo which should already be selected for you so click “Next: Configure Instance Details” on the bottom right. I am deploying to us-west-2 so I am looking for ami-d3e743b3.

Select “Community AMIs” on the left and then search for “OpenVPN Access Server 2.1.4.” Scroll down until you find the AMI for your current region (see table below).

Step 1 – Launch an EC2 instance from the OpenVPN Access Server AWS Marketplace offering First we will need to create an EC2 instance using the OpenVPN Marketplace AMI offering.

Knowledge of how to install programs as Administrator on Windows, or allow un-signed applications on a Mac.

A private subnet in the above mentioned VPC.

An AWS Account with a default or custom VPC.

The following are prerequisites for this process:

Install the OpenVPN client and connect to the instance in the private subnet.

Create EC2 instance in private subnet to test VPN Connectivity.

Create an Elastic IP for the OpenVPN Access Server instance and then ssh into the instance to configure the OpenVPN Access Server.

Launch an EC2 instance from the OpenVPN Access Server AWS Marketplace offering.

Our process today will consist of 4 easy steps: I will also review the costs for having this solution running monthly in your AWS Account. In this post I will show you how to setup a Software VPN using OpenVPN via their AWS Marketplace Offering, setup the local VPN Client to connect to the OpenVPN server, as well as create an instance in a new private subnet in the default VPC that we will use to test our VPN Connectivity. With that said, not everyone is able to setup an AWS Direct Connect connection, or have a network appliance they can setup for VPN connections into AWS. In today’s cloud world, being able to connect securely and privately to your AWS instances is a necessity.