posted Feb 17, 2018, 4:27 PM by Eric Patrick
AWS EC2 instances can be used as proxy servers. To start a proxy server: - From the AWS EC2 Dashboard, select AMIs
- From the TinyProxy AMI, right click and choose Launch
- Select the General Purpose t2.micro instance
- Configuration instance details:
- Network: choose a VPC (PlayGround2 recommended)
- Subnet: choose any subnet
- Auto-assign Public IP: choose 'Enable'
- choose Review and Launch
- Review Instance Launch
- Edit Security Groups, and choose the Launch Wizard 11 security group
- Edit Tags, and add a tag: Description = Proxy (just to make it easy to find from the EC2 search bar)
- Choose Launch
From the EC2 Security Groups panel: - Find the launch-wizard-11 group
- From the Inbound tab, Edit the rules
- Add a "Custom TCP Rule", port 8888, source the IP address of the machine that needs to use the proxy server
- Save
From the EC2 Instances panel: - Search for 'proxy'
- For any new instances, click on the instance, and see it's Public IP address
- Use this public IP address as a proxy server from Windows, HttpWebRequest, or any code that enables a custom proxy.
Configuration of the TinyProxy image was based on the following references. |
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