AWS and TinyProxy

Post date: Feb 18, 2018 12:27:37 AM

AWS EC2 instances can be used as proxy servers. To start a proxy server:

• 1. From the AWS EC2 Dashboard, select AMIs

  2. From the TinyProxy AMI, right click and choose Launch

  3. Select the General Purpose t2.micro instance

  4. Configuration instance details:

     • Network: choose a VPC (PlayGround2 recommended)

     • Subnet: choose any subnet

     • Auto-assign Public IP: choose 'Enable'

     • choose Review and Launch

  5. 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.

• • Overview: how to set up a free proxy server on AWS

  • Windows to Ubuntu EC2 connection: 

    • need to download Putty 

    • remember VI commands, or use: sudo nano {filename} 

Issues: 

• • cannot resolve ip-10-X-Y-Z: add it to the etc/hosts file 

  • cannot locate package tinyproxy: apt-get is out of date: sudo apt-get update

  • then run" sudo apt-get install tinyproxy