Setting up Security Groups for AWS CloudFront to an EC2 Instance

This guide will show you how to secure your CloudFront connection to your instances by only allowing the two to talk to each other, restricting the EC2 instances from the outside world. This could also apply to other resources like a Load Balancer This guide is based off a solution provided by the AWS team.Continue reading “Setting up Security Groups for AWS CloudFront to an EC2 Instance”

Setting up Security and Password Authentication for Small Elasticsearch Clusters

Now that you have a cluster, you are going to want to add some security to it. This is part 5 of a series on creating a personal Elasticstack. You can check the others out here: Building Your Environment in AWS Setting up and Installing Elasticsearch Setting up Kibana Using a Proxy for Kibana withContinue reading “Setting up Security and Password Authentication for Small Elasticsearch Clusters”

Setting up an AWS Environment for a Personal Elasticstack

This is Part 1 of a series of guides about setting up a personal Elasticstack. Building Your Environment in AWS Setting up and Installing Elasticsearch Setting up Kibana Using a Proxy for Kibana with HAProxy Enabling Security and Using Password Authentication Making Kibana Internet Accessible with Cloudfront Securing Cloudfront with Security Groups Inserting Data intoContinue reading “Setting up an AWS Environment for a Personal Elasticstack”