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AWS and OPNsense: Site-to-site IPsec VPN setup

There will always be circumstances where you will want to run a site-to-site VPN setup with AWS. You may have private resources (not Internet facing) within AWS that you need to access in a secure manner from an on-prem or home network. In this example, I walk through setting up an IPsec site-to-site VPN where the two sides are as follows: AWS – A private VPC, containing one EC2 server (to allow me to test everything is working!

May 23, 2020 Read

AWS Summit: How StepStone achieved a Cloud Centre of Excellence

I was recently invited by CloudHealth to present at the AWS Summit London. This was a dive into the lessons learned at StepStone in implementing a Cloud Centre of Excellence – coming from having nothing in AWS to it now being a key corporate strategy. I feel that we are now in a Very Good Place [TM] in terms of our use of AWS, but there were certainly hiccups along the way, which is what this deck concentrates on.

May 20, 2019 Read