AWS Site-to-Site VPN

AWS Site-to-Site VPN is a managed Amazon Web Services offering that establishes secure, encrypted connections between an on-premises network (like a corporate data center or remote office) and an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) over the public internet. Utilizing industry-standard IPsec…

Key facts

First appeared: 2009
Category: technology
Problem solved: Securely and reliably extending an on-premises network to an AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without relying on expensive dedicated private lines or exposing cloud resources directly to the internet. It provides a managed, scalable solution for hybrid cloud connectivity.
Platforms: AWS Cloud, On-premises network devices (routers, firewalls, VPN appliances)

Related technologies

AWS Transit Gateway
On-premises routers
AWS Direct Connect
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
On-premises firewalls

Notable users

Organizations implementing disaster recovery strategies
Enterprises leveraging hybrid cloud architectures
Companies performing cloud migrations
Businesses extending their corporate network to AWS for resource access