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Using Tailscale to Access Amazon VPCs, EC2 Instances, and RDS Clusters

Crafty CTO

Bigger Picture: Other Needs When I broadened my thinking, I quickly realized we had already implemented two other one-off remote access solutions: To enable SQL GUI tool access to the database, we set up bastion servers on our staging and production VPCs. ” To drill down a bit: Keep our AWS Virtual Private Clouds walled off and private.

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SaaS Security: Basic Principles and Best Practices

SaaS Metrics

VPC and VPN. Virtual Private Cloud and Virtual Private Network provide a secure environment only meant for a specific user and your provider should be able to facilitate these environments. VPC/VPN is arguably a better option than multi-tenant instances, providing customers with more control over their data.