• Cloud Edge Secure Access
• Networks
  • Private DNS
  • DNS Filtering
  • Routes
  • Split Tunneling
  • Site-to-Site Interconnectivity
  • Multi-Tunneling
  • Dynamic-IP Tunnels
  • Whitelisting Resources
    • Benefits of Whitelisting
    • Microsoft Azure
    • SalesForce
    • AWS Management Console
    • Google Cloud Platform
• Client-Based Access
  • MDM App Deployment
  • SCCM Agent Deployment
  • JAMF Cloud
• Client-less Access (Zero Trust Applications)
  • URL Aliasing
  • RDP Security Mode
• SonicWall Support
  • About This Document

AWS-EC2 Security Groups

This article describes how to whitelist your SonicWall Cloud Edge Gateway at the AWS Management Console, which will allow you to restrict the access to a certain resource within a VPC to users connected to the secure SonicWall Cloud Edge Gateway only. While this method needs to be applied to every particular resource, it is a good alternative for those who'd like to avoid setting up a Site-to-Site connection to a VPC.

• Create a security group
• Attach resources to the security group

Please follow the steps below:

Create a security group

1. Open the AWS Management Console EC2 dashboard.

2. Navigate to Security Groups.

   

3. Select Create and fill in the following information:

   

   • Security group name: Enter a name of your choice.
   • Description: Describe the use case of the group. The description can be up to 255 characters long.
   • VPC: Select the appropriate VPC. If you are using VPC peering, you can later update the rules for your VPC security groups to reference security groups in the peered VPC. In case you are using a Transit Gateway, note that spoke Amazon VPCs cannot reference security groups in other spokes connected to the same AWS Transit Gateway.

   • Add an inbound rule according to the following

     • Type: All traffic
     • Protocol: All
     • Port range: All
     • Source: Custom; Insert your SonicWall Cloud Edge Gateway IP

     • Description: (optional)

       

     • Select Create security group.

Attach resources to the security group

1. Return to the EC2 dashboard.

2. Select the Instances tab within the Instances section.

   

3. Select the instance you'd like to apply the Security Group to. Select Actions /Networking /Change Security Groups.

   

4. Select the newly created security group, then select Assign security group.