AWS VPC Endpoints

This sandbox implements a VPC Interface Endpoint to send messages to a SQS queue from an EC2 instance that runs in a private subnet.

In addition to provisioning the core resources, policies will be configured to use proper conditions.

The SQS queue will only accept sqs:SendMessage operations coming from the configured VPC Endpoint:

"Condition": {
  "StringNotEquals": {
    "aws:sourceVpce": "vpce-1a2b3c4d"
  }
}

Setup

Create the variables file template:

cp config/local.auto.tfvars .auto.tfvars

Create the EC2 instance key pair material:

ssh-keygen -f modules/instance/ec2_id_rsa

To create the environment simply run:

terraform init
terraform apply -auto-approve

Connect to the EC2 instance:

aws ssm start-session --target i-00000000000000000 --region us-east-2

Once the environment is created, connect to the EC2 instance using SSM. Confirm that the name is resolving to a private IP:

$ dig +short sqs.us-east-2.amazonaws.com
10.0.50.54

Confirm that you're authenticated from within the EC2 instance:

aws sts get-caller-identity

Now send a message to the endpoint to the see the results:

aws sqs send-message --queue-url https://sqs.sa-east-1.amazonaws.com/000000000000/my-private-queue --message-body Hello

Clean-up

terraform destroy