AWS Services Connecting to Regions Outside My Selected Region
How to test to see if traffic is staying in the region you selected
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More than once now I’ve had things fail because something is the AWS console is connecting to something outside my selected region. How do I know this?
Identifying traffic using the published AWS IP ranges
Because I have a very restrictive IP list and domain list in my firewall. I only allow things in the AWS JSON IP list and I would hope that anything in the AWS console would be in this list:
Unfortunately I just wrote about how some IPs used by AWS Session Manager were not in the JSON IP list when I wrote this post — hopefully that has been fixed.
