Local Firewall Rules to Connect to an AWS EIP via SSH

ACM.101 Configuring network and host firewalls on home and business networks to allow SSH to an AWS IP address

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In the last post, we deployed an EC2 instance configured with an EIP on AWS.

Deploying an AWS Elastic IP Address

If you’ve done that, now you can also restrict SSH from your local network to your EIP on AWS and disallow connections to unauthorized IP addresses and disallow unauthorized hosts on your local network from using SSH. I’m going to demonstrate this with PFSense but whatever network firewall you use should have similar options.