Tag: AWS

Fault Tolerant VPN Solution on AWS


I worked with a project team to help them to improve their current VPN infrastructure on AWS. They have 3 VPN EC2 instances, let's call them VPN01, VPN02 and VPN03. They are all OpenVPN Access Server, VPN01 and VPN02 both have 10 concurrent sessions license, and in availability a and b respectively. VPN03 only has … Continue reading Fault Tolerant VPN Solution on AWS →

SSSG Ninja


SSSG Ninja is my new open source project - It is a all-in-one managemenet tool for SSSG (Site Shield Security Group), it not only makes recommendations but also can do the jobs for you. If you are interested to try, it can be found in my Github repo. Here are current supported features: Make recommendations based … Continue reading SSSG Ninja →

Elasticache Redis Unreachable Issue


We have a Elasticache Redis replication group, it has two nodes: one primary and one replica. Last week, we noticed that the primary redis node suddenly stops working - any connections to the primary node timed out eventually. According to the log, there was a load burst and following that the redis reboot itself. Unfortunately, … Continue reading Elasticache Redis Unreachable Issue →