Does a VPN requirement kill the concept of having a Web Application in the Cloud?
- by Christian
Recently I posted a question in SO, but so far I got no answers. I wonder if I'm asking the wrong question.
This is the problem:
We need to design an application which
offers a public http web service, but
at the same time it must consume some
services through a VPN connection from
other existing company. There is no
other alternative but to use a VPN
connection to access those services.
We want to host our application in
some cloud infrastructure like Heroku
or Amazon EC2. But there is no direct
way to access the VPN services of the
other company from there.
The solution I'm thinking, but I don't like is to have a different server to expose the services from that VPN. But this will require the setup of another server which I prefer to avoid. In the case this is the solution, can I use an Amazon EC2 instance to connect to a VPN?
This is what I was thinking, is it correct?
I don't have experience using VPNs, tunnels or those kind of networking stuff. I will really appreciate if you can propose me an alternative solution, or just give me a comment.
