AWS instances, by default, cannot connect to private campus networks. AWS VPN allows a secure connection from instances to U-M campus private networks. The VPN consists of two tunnels for automatic failover to avoid access interruption to your AWS VPC. ITS provides an option to increase redundancy by using two pairs of VPN nodes over sites. Should one site go offline, the other site will accept traffic. Customers providing a customer facing application or need production availability should use two tunnels.
Amazon Web Services
Overview
Creating IAM users within AWS is a common way to provide access to an AWS environment and leverages native AWS authentication mechanisms. However, this approach has many shortfalls that can compromise the security of your Amazon Web Services at U-M account. Additional critical issues include:
Sign Into AWS
MCommunity procedure
Create/Identify an MCommunity group for access to your AWS account.
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