Can you connect to Amazon VPC VPN from Windows 7 without a hardware VPN on your end?

Question

I found this thread that seems to suggest it's not possible to connect to Amazon VPC VPN from a Windows 7 box without an external hardware (router) on the client side.

Is this true, or did I miss anything?

If it is possible, are there instructions on how to do this?

Solution

Using AWS's VPC gateway would typically require a hardware router such as a Cisco or Juniper. You could take the virtualized route by going with Mikrotik or Vyatta at your site.

To connect your PC to the VPC, I'd recommend installing OpenVPN on your AWS instance. You can set-up an SSL VPN to your PC. Setting up the SSL VPN is not difficult. There are several guides that explain how to do this for linux distributions and Windows.

Comments

[Craig Vermeer]

Yeah, I kind of figured that out btw now. Still, I managed to connect quite easily to my ubuntu box (from my Win7) using Putty. help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH/OpenSSH/PortForwarding