I want to allows nodes in the app-server group talk to mysql and redis machines in the database group. However, I can only make explicit IPs work for ingress rules. When I try to define groups instead, to make auto-scaling easier, the traffic is blocked.
Here's my setup:
When I run
ec2-describe-group database
I get
PERMISSION 890752071609 database ALLOWS tcp 3306 3306 FROM USER 890752071609 NAME default ID sg-5ce3766c ingress
PERMISSION 890752071609 database ALLOWS tcp 3306 3306 FROM USER 890752071609 NAME app-server ID sg-b81b8088 ingress
PERMISSION 890752071609 database ALLOWS tcp 6379 6379 FROM USER 890752071609 NAME default ID sg-5ce3766c ingress
PERMISSION 890752071609 database ALLOWS tcp 6379 6379 FROM USER 890752071609 NAME app-server ID sg-b81b8088 ingress
PERMISSION 890752071609 database ALLOWS tcp 0 65535 FROM USER 890752071609 NAME database ID sg-d262f1e2 ingress
PERMISSION 890752071609 database ALLOWS tcp 22 22 FROM CIDR 0.0.0.0/0 ingress
However, when I try to connect to port 6379 using redis-cli from a machine in the app-server group, I get a redis timeout error.
If I explicitly add the elastic IP of the server I want to connect from, like this
PERMISSION 890752071609 database ALLOWS tcp 3306 3306 FROM CIDR 111.snip.25/32 ingress
PERMISSION 890752071609 database ALLOWS tcp 6379 6379 FROM CIDR 222.snip.25/32 ingress
the redis-cli call works. However, I want to be more flexible, and add the entire security group instead.
The amazon docs state
By specifying a security group as the source, you allow incoming traffic from all instances that belong to the source security group. The incoming traffic that you allow is based on the private IP addresses of the instances in the source security group. You might specify another security group in your account if you're creating a three-tier web service (see Creating a Three-Tier Web Service).
This should work, no? What am I doing wrong?
Few recommendations to check/ try:
AWS sec groups do not allow cross regions rules. I don't know if your Redis machines are in the same region.
Try to create this setup from AWS Web Interface or from Dome9 Console (www.dome9.com) to make sure that there are no hidden settings that are not displayed.
Don't loose hope - this kind of setup should work - AWS sec groups were designed for this use case.
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I have a subnet with Route table with the only route 0.0.0.0/0 => AzureFirewallIP in it.
Azure firewall does not have rules allowing access to external resources. But still I can telnet some.domain.com 443 and get connected!
WTF?
When I issue curl -k ... though, I get Encountered end of file.
According to Azure engineers this is by design and this has no security impact at all.
We are using Avi networks on AWS and I have everything set up, but with relaxed Security Group settings.
I would like to tighten the security on the controller instance. So I was wondering which ports needed to be open on the controller's security group, and from which source IP(s)/range(s) they should accept connections from.
The Avi Controller requires port 443 for UI access and uses ports 8443 and 22 for communication with the service engines; hence ports 443, 8443 and 22 need to be open on the controller's security group. As for the source IP's, you will want to include any IP addresses/ranges that will need access to the controller UI.
I am new to this Aws security to deploy in amazon webservice.
When i restrict security groups with some IP address, my application runs dead slow or it may not run also, thats the reason i am getting connection time out when i try to call webservice which is deployed in aws. When i open the IP address restriction in Security groups it works fine.
How to configure my AWS using security groups. so that my application is accessible to only to some restricted networks.
Please help me put on this.
Below are the my security group details
INBOUND
Type Protocol Port range Source
MYSQL TCP 3306 X.X.X.X/X
SSH TCP 22 X.X.X.X/X
HTTP TCP 80 X.X.X.X/X
OUBOUND
Type Protocol Port range Source
MYSQL TCP 3306 0.0.0.0/0
SSH TCP 22 0.0.0.0/0
HTTP TCP 80 0.0.0.0/0
i am using hibernate for DB connection from my web application. But everytime i am getting connection timeout with the above security group. but if i remove the IP address restrictions it works fine.
Note: DB connection works fine from mysql workbench
<property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:mysql://schemaname.amazonDBInsatnce:3306/test</property>
Security Groups will not "slow down" access to an Amazon EC2 instance. They are used to determine which ports are open to a given range of IP addresses. Either the traffic is allowed through, or it is not.
Security Groups can be defined for Inbound and Outbound traffic. By default, all Inbound traffic is denied and all Outbound traffic is permitted.
It is possible that your application is trying to access some external service and is timing-out, hence causing delays. Permitted all Outbound traffic is usually acceptable, so try that first and see if your application performs better.
Also, check the log files that your application is producing to see if any errors are being generated, which will give you a hint as to what might be happening.
I created a new ubuntu instance in AWS, I can ssh connect to it successfully.
However when I try to install packages using this command, it won't work :
sudo apt-get install apache2
...
...
0% [Connecting to ap-southeast-2.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com (91.189.91.23)]^Cubuntu#ip-10-1-0-99:/etc$
This never moves forward !
I tried ping google.com.au, also no response.
Here is the VPC config of AWS:
Network ACL :
Outbound:
Rule # Type Protocol Port Range Destination Allow / Deny
100 ALL Traffic ALL ALL 0.0.0.0/0 ALLOW
* ALL Traffic ALL ALL 0.0.0.0/0 DENY
Inbound :
Rule # Type Protocol Port Range Source Allow / Deny
10 HTTP (80) TCP (6) 80 0.0.0.0/0 ALLOW
120 HTTPS (443) TCP (6) 443 0.0.0.0/0 ALLOW
140 SSH (22) TCP (6) 22 0.0.0.0/0 ALLOW
* ALL Traffic ALL ALL 0.0.0.0/0 DENY
security Group outbound settings :
Type Protocol Port Range Destination
ALL Traffic ALL ALL 0.0.0.0/0
Routing table setting:
Destination Target Status Propagated
10.1.0.0/24 local Active No
0.0.0.0/0 igw-cfe30caa Active No
What could be wrong here ?
EDIT: nslookup & dig command works fine!
Thanks !
Your inbound network ACL is only allowing traffic addressed to inbound TCP ports 22, 80, and 443. It doesn't allow the responses for your outbound requests, on your ephemeral ports.
$ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
32768 61000
You need a rule in the network ACL to allow TCP 32768 through 61000... or, better, don't use the inbound network ACL at all -- set it back to the default, to allow all.
You almost certainly don't need to use network ACLs unless you have a particularly complex network configuration. The inbound rules in the security group are usually sufficient to control access to an instance. Inbound security group rules deny by default, and unlike Network ACLs, which are stateless packet filters, security groups are stateful, TCP session-aware.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/VPC_Security.html#VPC_Security_Comparison
Important: do not add the ephemeral port rule discussed above to the security group inbound rules. Since security groups are stateful, you only want to "allow" traffic in the direction where you want TCP sessions to be initiated. Responses to established TCP sessions are allowed automatically by security group rules, but not network ACL rules, because they're implemented differently.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/VPC_ACLs.html
* ALL Traffic ALL ALL 0.0.0.0/0 DENY - Wrong
* ALL Traffic ALL ALL 0.0.0.0/0 Allow - Right
Please allow Outbound, if you want to connect to external servers like google.com
or even want to update- sudo apt-get update
You can allow the outbound using AWS front-end goto Security Groups -> Outbound
Make sure you select the right group for your AWS instance
I will be having Redis in a master-slave configuration where each Redis node is in a separate EC2 instance. Since each Redis slave will need to communicate with the master, I need to add the Redis' own security group ID as a source. However, I'm unsure as to what protocol Redis will be using. Should I set up the Security group rule as a Custom TCP with select access to ports, or should it just be the "All TCP" rule?
A custom tcp rule on port 6379 and the security group as source is enough