Access an AWS service using an interface VPC endpoint - Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
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Access an AWS service using an interface VPC endpoint

You can create an interface VPC endpoint to connect to services powered by AWS PrivateLink, including many AWS services.

For each subnet that you specify from your VPC, we create an endpoint network interface in the subnet and assign it a private IP address from the subnet address range. An endpoint network interface is a requester-managed network interface; you can view it in your AWS account, but you can't manage it yourself.

You are billed for hourly usage and data processing charges. For more information, see Interface endpoint pricing.

Considerations

  • Interface VPC endpoints support traffic only over TCP.

  • AWS services accept connection requests automatically. The service can't initiate requests to resources through the VPC endpoint.

  • The DNS names created for VPC endpoints are publicly resolvable. They resolve to the private IP addresses of the endpoint network interfaces for the enabled Availability Zones. The private DNS names are not publicly resolvable.

  • By default, each interface endpoint can support a bandwidth of up to 10 Gbps per Availability Zone and automatically scales up to 100 Gbps. If your application needs higher throughput per zone, contact AWS Support.

  • There are quotas on your AWS PrivateLink resources. For more information, see AWS PrivateLink quotas.

Prerequisites

  • Create a private subnet in your VPC and deploy the resources that will access the AWS service using the VPC endpoint in the private subnet.

  • To use private DNS, you must enable DNS hostnames and DNS resolution for your VPC. For more information, see View and update DNS attributes in the Amazon VPC User Guide.

  • The security group for the interface endpoint must allow communication between the endpoint network interface and the resources in your VPC that must communicate with the service. By default, the interface endpoint uses the default security group for the VPC. Alternatively, you can create a security group to control the traffic to the endpoint network interfaces from the resources in the VPC. To ensure that tools such as the AWS CLI can make requests over HTTPS from resources in the VPC to the AWS service, the security group must allow inbound HTTPS traffic.

  • If your resources are in a subnet with a network ACL, verify that the network ACL allows traffic between the endpoint network interfaces and the resources in the VPC.

Create a VPC endpoint

Use the following procedure to create an interface VPC endpoint that connects to an AWS service.

To create an interface endpoint for an AWS service

  1. Open the Amazon VPC console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/vpc/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Endpoints.

  3. Choose Create endpoint.

  4. For Service category, choose AWS services.

  5. For Service name, select the service. For more information, see AWS services that integrate with AWS PrivateLink.

  6. For VPC, select the VPC from which you'll access the AWS service.

  7. If, in Step 5, you selected the service name for Amazon S3, and if you want to configure private DNS support, select Additional settings, Enable DNS name. When you make this selection, it also automatically selects Enable private DNS only for inbound endpoint. You can configure private DNS with an inbound Resolver endpoint only for interface endpoints for Amazon S3. If you do not have a gateway endpoint for Amazon S3 and you select Enable private DNS only for inbound endpoint, you'll receive an error when you attempt the final step in this procedure.

    If, in Step 5, you selected the service name for any service other than Amazon S3, Additional settings, Enable DNS name is already selected. We recommend that you keep the default.

  8. For Subnets, select one subnet per Availability Zone from which you'll access the AWS service.

  9. For Security group, select the security groups to associate with the endpoint network interfaces. The security group rules must allow resources that will use the VPC endpoint to communicate with the AWS service to communicate with the endpoint network interface.

  10. For Policy, select Full access to allow all operations by all principals on all resources over the VPC endpoint. Otherwise, select Custom to attach a VPC endpoint policy that controls the permissions that principals have for performing actions on resources over the VPC endpoint. This option is available only if the service supports VPC endpoint policies. For more information, see VPC endpoint policies.

  11. (Optional) To add a tag, choose Add new tag and enter the tag key and the tag value.

  12. Choose Create endpoint.

To create an interface endpoint using the command line