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Tyler Applebaum

Author: Tyler Applebaum

Tyler is a Sr. Solutions Architect in the Charlotte, NC area helping customers migrate to AWS and modernize their applications. He has previous experience as a network engineer working in healthcare and finance.

Visualize Amazon EC2 based VPN metrics with Amazon CloudWatch Logs

Organizations have many options for connecting to on-premises networks or third parties, including AWS Site-to-Site VPN. However, some organizations still need to use an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance running VPN software, such as strongSwan. Gaining insight into Amazon EC2-based VPN metrics can be challenging when compared to AWS native VPN services that […]