Office needs access to private cloud resources
Site-to-site VPN between your router and the cloud VPN gateway is usually enough for SMB.
Try this first
- 1Cloud side: VPN gateway plus customer gateway with your public IP
- 2Office side: IPsec config in firewall (Fortigate, Sophos, Mikrotik)
- 3Pre-shared keys via password vault, never email
- 4Test failover for a tunnel-down case
When to bring us in
For multiple offices, AWS Transit Gateway or Azure Virtual WAN. Direct Connect/ExpressRoute only for truly high bandwidth.
See also
- Everyone logs in with the AWS root accountRoot is for emergencies and billing. Day-to-day work belongs in IAM users or SSO.
- Every developer has AdministratorAccessAdministratorAccess everywhere is convenient now, painful later. Start with role-based policies.
- Everyone has individual IAM users with their own passwordIdentity Center (formerly AWS SSO) links to your IdP and issues temporary credentials per session.
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