Access to my S3 websites using OpenVPN

Question

Hello nice to meet you, as part of some changes on my cloud i would like to implement VPN access for my S3 websites running on my DEV environemt because rightnow they are public and only accessed from the Cloudfront distributrion, right now the connection involves:
1- One cloudfront distribution
2- One S3 bucket with static hosting enable
3- OpenVPN server running on my cloud
Also on top of this I have AWS WAF,

Answer

If you want to access to S3 buckets outside of cloudfront and only from your VPN, you could use something like a VPC s3 gateway endpoint and on the buckets only allow access from specific VPC endpoints.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/example-bucket-policies-vpc-endpoint.html

Answer

As you're already using WAF then setup web access control lists (web ACLs) to limit access to just a range of IPs that matches your VPN https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/developerguide/web-acl.html

Then apply this to the CloudFront distribution.

You can also restrict access using CloudFront directly https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/cloudfront-access-to-amazon-s3

Access to my S3 websites using OpenVPN

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