
A great example of this is inclement weather. This is key for spiky workloads, such as the typical ebbs and flows of workforce connectivity throughout the day. The service will seamlessly scale to many users, without the need to acquire or manage any licenses or additional infrastructure. What’s also unique with AWS Client VPN is the scalable nature of the service. The undifferentiated heavy lifting of maintaining and running a client VPN solution is completely avoided. Connectivity from remote end-users to AWS and on-premises resources can be facilitated by this highly available, scalable, and pay-as-you-go service. OverviewĪWS Client VPN is a fully managed service that provides customers with the ability to securely access AWS and on-premises resources from any location using OpenVPN based clients. Many times, unforeseen events cause spikes in the bandwidth and connection requirements, causing reduced VPN availability. Managing these client-based VPN solutions presents scaling and operational challenges and is an ongoing burden. This has often meant relying on on-premises VPN hardware or provisioning client VPN infrastructure in EC2 instances.

Many organizations, both small and large, rely on some form of client virtual private network (VPN) connectivity to facilitate secure remote user access to resources hosted on internal networks. You may also be interested in a recent 300-level online tech talk that dives into our Client VPN and Site to Site VPN services in detail. The content is still relevant today, so we’re publishing it again to make it easier to find. It comes as no surprise that this post (originally published on December 19, 2018) is receiving a lot of traffic.

Update Ma– With recent events, the need to provide a remote workforce with secured connectivity is greater than ever.
