{"id":6671,"date":"2016-01-07T15:56:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/postgresql-on-amazon-rds-securing-the-beast\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T15:56:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:56:31","slug":"postgresql-on-amazon-rds-securing-the-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/postgresql-on-amazon-rds-securing-the-beast\/","title":{"rendered":"PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS &#8211; Securing the beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/dbi-services.com\/blog\/postgresql-on-amazon-rds-setting-up-the-beast\/\" target=\"_blank\">last post<\/a> I looked at how to bring up a PostgreSQL instance in the Amazon cloud. In this post I&#8217;ll look into how to restrict access to this instance to specific IP addresses to strengthen security. If you think about moving things to the cloud you for sure want to make the stuff accessible to restricted people or systems only.<\/p>\n<p>On the left side there is a &#8220;Security Groups&#8221; menu which sounds like what we want:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/az20.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/az20.png\" alt=\"az20\" width=\"1495\" height=\"382\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6324\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Seems I have to go to the EC2 console, so lets do that:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/az21.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/az21.png\" alt=\"az21\" width=\"1612\" height=\"817\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6325\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a PostgreSQL instance is created a default security group is created with allows the machine with my local IP address to access the instance. No other clients are accepted by default:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/az31.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/az31.png\" alt=\"az31\" width=\"1312\" height=\"796\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6331\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If I adjust this to something else I am no longer able to connect:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/az32.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/az32.png\" alt=\"az32\" width=\"1318\" height=\"228\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The connection attempt just hangs&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/az33.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/az33.png\" alt=\"az33\" width=\"655\" height=\"37\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and timeouts after a while:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/az36.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/az36.png\" alt=\"az36\" width=\"913\" height=\"125\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In fact these are firewall rules and you can choose among various protocols and types:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/az34.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/az34.png\" alt=\"az34\" width=\"151\" height=\"322\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6335\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the &#8220;source&#8221; there is the choice between a custom ip address, my own ip address and &#8220;hey, I don&#8217;t care&#8221;, which is &#8220;Anyone&#8221;:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/az35.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/az35.png\" alt=\"az35\" width=\"96\" height=\"50\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The same can be down for outbound connections:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/az37.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/az37.png\" alt=\"az37\" width=\"1313\" height=\"210\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quite easy and powerful and of course you can create new security groups:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/az38.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/az38.png\" alt=\"az38\" width=\"413\" height=\"233\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6341\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When there are discussions about putting things into the cloud security is always a topic and it seems that Amazon did a good job here. 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