Fantasy Grounds - Port Forwarding - Transparent Op
  • Fantasy Grounds - Port Forwarding and a "transparent" OpenVPN setup
  • General
    • Introduction - F.G.Comms
    • GM's machine barriers
    • Internet connection barriers
    • Some NO-GO Situations
    • VPN solutions
  • Proposed Solution
    • "Transparent" OpenVPN-based Port Forwarding
    • Tools
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Setup process overview
  • Local setup - Step-by-step
    • Step 0 : Preparation
    • Step 1 : OpenVPN + Easy-RSA & "new-PKI"
    • Step 2 : Create your own PKI
    • Step 3 : Setup OpenVPN connections
  • AWS Setup - Click-by-Click
    • Step 4 : Your AWS environment
    • 4.1-Creating the IAM Role
    • 4.2-Choosing the AWS Region
    • 4.3-Creating the S3 bucket
    • 4.4-Virtual Private Cloud - Default VPC
    • 4.5-Creating an AWS Key Pair
    • 4.6-Creating an AWS Security Group
    • 4.7-Filling the bucket
    • 4.8-Building the Launch Template
  • Transfer & First Test
    • Step 5 : Transfer to S3
    • Step 6 : Launch time !
    • Step 7 : Connect, test, fix glitches
    • Step 8 : Destroy/"Terminate" after use
  • Use your server
    • Regular Usage Pattern
  • Simultaneous FG games / 1 VPN Server
    • Lifting the "1 GM at-a-time" restriction
    • FGU vs. FGC networking
    • VPNs for both FGC + FGU (LAN mode)
  • Upgrading our setup for "N-at-a-time", FGC/FGU
    • Untitled
  • Appendixes
    • Acronyms and definitions
    • AWS acronyms
    • AWS admin user + API access key
    • AWS, DNS, DDNS, CRL...
    • Possible (?) developments
  • Links
    • Fantasy Grounds Web
    • Fantasy Grounds Discord
    • FG College Web
    • FG College Discord
    • FG College KB
    • Our "EU" Discord
    • OpenVPN
    • AWS
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4.2-Choosing the AWS Region

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Starting from here, let's choose an AWS Region as our playground, using the Region menu near the top right corner of the console.

The geographically closest to you is usually the best because it should give minimal latency (=delay) in network traffic between you and your server.

On the other hand, if most of your players are located far away from you and near each other, you may sometimes get better performance with a region near the players...

For this demo I'll choose Stockholm (called eu-north-1), an AWS region which is "virgin territory" for me (I have never used it before), so that the screenshots are not too crowded by pre-existing AWS resources :

Before you create any kind of AWS "resource", always verify you are in the region you want...