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This product has charges associated with it for AWS support & maintenance. Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator.
Overview
This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for support & maintenance.
Proxy Server - Squid Proxy with Webmin on Ubuntu 22.04
Squid Proxy is a powerful, versatile proxy server designed to optimize network performance, enhance security, and control web access. Squids caching capabilities, access management, and secure handling of web traffic make it an excellent choice for businesses, educational institutions, and any organization looking to improve network efficiency and security. Also comes pre-installed with Webmin, allowing you to manage the server via web UI.
Proxy Server Features
- Web Content Caching: Squid stores copies of frequently accessed web content, reducing load times, conserving bandwidth, and providing faster access to popular resources
- Access Control and Content Filtering: Configure rules to restrict access to certain websites, IPs, or domains, ensuring safe and productive browsing environments.
- SSL/TLS Encryption and Decryption: Supports secure handling of HTTPS traffic, with SSL/TLS decryption for content inspection, helping organizations enforce security policies on encrypted traffic.
- Bandwidth Optimization: Caches content, reduces redundancy, and lowers bandwidth costs, making it especially valuable for high-traffic networks and organizations with limited bandwidth.
- Reverse Proxy and Load Balancing: Distributes requests across multiple servers, balancing load to improve performance and availability for high-traffic applications.
- Anonymizing Proxy: Hides user IP addresses from external sites, offering an additional privacy layer for sensitive browsing activities.
- Traffic Shaping and Qos: Controls the amount of bandwidth allocated to different types of traffic, enabling organizations to prioritize important applications or restrict excessive usage.
- Customizable Logging and Monitoring: Logs detailed traffic activity, enabling real-time network monitoring, auditing, and troubleshooting capabilities.
- Customizable ACLs (Access Control Lists): Set granular rules to allow or deny access based on parameters such as time, IP address, domain, and user groups.
- Web UI using Webmin to manager your proxy Server.
Squid Proxy Use Cases
- Bandwidth Optimization for High-Traffic Environments: Reduces data usage and speeds up content delivery by caching popular files, ideal for organizations with limited bandwidth or remote locations.
- Enhanced Security for Encrypted Traffic: Inspects and manages SSL/TLS traffic, enforcing security protocols and monitoring encrypted web activity for compliance purposes.
- Reverse Proxy for Load Balancing and Fault Tolerance: Acts as a reverse proxy, improving performance and availability by directing requests to multiple backend servers based on load.
- Increased Privacy for Sensitive Web Browsing: Hides internal IP addresses from external servers, enhancing privacy for users accessing external resources.
- Edge Caching for Content Delivery Networks (CDN): Caches frequently requested content at the network edge, reducing latency and improving content delivery speed for geographically dispersed users.
- Traffic Monitoring and Compliance Logging: Monitor web activity and log traffic for compliance with regulatory standards, helping IT teams enforce policies and detect suspicious activity.
- Proxy for Development and Testing Environments: Simulate caching and proxy behavior for testing applications, making it useful for development teams that need a controlled test environment.
- Internet Access Control for Isolated Networks: Allows internal network devices to securely access the internet through a controlled and secure proxy server.
Squid Proxy Server offers a cost-effective, open-source alternative to proprietary proxy solutions, such as NGINX, HAProxy & Privoxy.
Disclaimer: Squid is licensed under GNU GPL license. No warrantee of any kind, express or implied, is included with this software. Use at your risk.
Highlights
- AWS Squid proxy caching server has been optimised for speed and high performance.
- Improve the speed of your internet by caching frequently accessed websites. Also restrict access to certain websites within your network
- Traffic Interception with WCCP. Also hide your internal IP addresses from the outside world.
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Ubuntu 22.04
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Pricing is based on actual usage, with charges varying according to how much you consume. Subscriptions have no end date and may be canceled any time.
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t2.medium Recommended | $0.05 |
t3.micro | $0.05 |
t2.micro | $0.05 |
r5d.12xlarge | $0.05 |
i3.2xlarge | $0.05 |
m5.4xlarge | $0.05 |
m4.4xlarge | $0.05 |
m5n.16xlarge | $0.05 |
r5d.xlarge | $0.05 |
h1.2xlarge | $0.05 |
Dimensions summary
You pay by the hour for the Squid proxy cache software, billed on top of the EC2 instance you choose to run it on. Pricing is not tiered by features. Every instance option delivers the same proxy software, including web caching, access controls, and the Webmin web management interface. What changes across the many options is the underlying EC2 instance type. Larger instances offer more compute, memory, or storage, so their hourly rate is higher. You select the instance that matches your workload size and pay only for the hours you run it.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
The hourly rate covers the pre-configured Squid proxy image running on your chosen EC2 instance. It comes tuned for performance, with the Webmin web management interface and support access included. You also pay the separate AWS charge for the underlying EC2 instance you select.
The hourly software fee meters running time only. When you fully stop the instance, the software charge stops accruing. You may still pay AWS storage fees for the stopped instance's disk, but that is separate from this proxy software charge.
Match the instance to your expected proxy traffic and caching load. Larger instances add compute, memory, or storage and carry a higher hourly rate. You can stop the instance and relaunch on a different type; billing then follows the new instance's hourly rate.
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
New OS patches applied. Simply run 'sudo apt-get update' to install the latest OS patches.
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Usage instructions
SSH into the EC2 instance with the following username: ubuntu
Instructions for connecting to Linux instances via SSH can be found on: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-key-pairs.html
Once logged in, Scroll down to 'Getting Started' on the following URL: https://cloudinfrastructureservices.co.uk/how-to-setup-squid-proxy-cache-in-aws/
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Web Content Caching
Stores copies of frequently accessed web content to reduce load times, conserve bandwidth, and provide faster access to popular resources
Access Control and Content Filtering
Configurable rules to restrict access to websites, IP addresses, or domains based on parameters such as time, IP address, domain, and user groups
SSL/TLS Encryption and Decryption
Supports secure handling of HTTPS traffic with SSL/TLS decryption for content inspection to enforce security policies on encrypted traffic
Reverse Proxy and Load Balancing
Distributes requests across multiple backend servers to balance load and improve performance and availability for high-traffic applications
Traffic Shaping and Quality of Service
Controls bandwidth allocation to different types of traffic, enabling prioritization of important applications or restriction of excessive usage
HTTPS Decryption and SSL Inspection
Deep HTTPS decryption and SSL inspection capability to filter encrypted web traffic against security policies, preventing malicious downloads, explicit content, and policy violations.
Active Directory Integration
Integration with Active Directory, LDAP, and RADIUS authentication systems to apply granular per-user and per-group filtering policies using existing directory infrastructure.
Web Filtering and Content Blocking
Web filtering proxy appliance based on Squid that blocks illegal or potentially malicious file downloads, removes advertisements, prevents access to specified website categories, and blocks resources with explicit content.
Centralized Policy Management
Centralized web-based administrative interface for defining differentiated access levels across departments, roles, and device groups without requiring additional client software.
Multi-Platform Deployment
Pre-configured deployment on AWS as an AMI running Ubuntu 26.04 and Squid 7.6, with additional support for Azure, VMware, and Hyper-V environments for hybrid infrastructure.
Intrusion Detection and Prevention
Intrusion Detection and Prevention System for threat identification and mitigation
VPN Connectivity
VPN connections supporting multiple Gigabit per second bandwidth for secure interconnection between VPCs, offices, and data centers
Web Proxy with Content Filtering
Web proxy with integrated content filtering capabilities
Quality of Service Management
Quality of Service functionality for traffic management and prioritization
Logging and Reporting
Comprehensive logging and reporting capabilities for security monitoring and analysis
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