DDWRT OpenVPN Client to AWS EC2 Instance

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Please Help!

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  1. Set up an AWS EC2 Instance
  2. Downloaded the EC2 Instance .PEM file
  3. Set up DDWRT on Router
  4. Enabled OpenVPN Client

How do I connect to AWS EC2 Instance, with OpenVPN Client, through DDWRT? .Pem file doesn’t seem to have all the necessary certificates. Where do I find them or what am i missing?

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Is ooenvpn installed on the instance? You are confusing two different technologies, the certificates you got from aws are usually for ssh or rdp, not vpn.

You can set up a vpn on aws but its $

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Yes, openvpn server is installed on the instance. Any idea how to connect to the instance from DDWRT OpenVPN client? As far as I understand, I need certificates. If the AWS certificates are only for use with SSH/RDP, will I have to create my own, through a third party? If so, where in AWS would they be placed?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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You’d have to get your own, likely from a certificate authority, and as for where to put them, you’d have to refer to the documentation for the openvpn server software, it would be on the server not AWS itself.

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You just need to follow the guide on the openvpn site on how to set up the server and then download the “client” file, search Google. At this point, as long as your security groups are allowing traffic in and the instance is in a public subnet, it should all be standard openvpn steps with nothing AWS-specific.