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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4.5-Creating an AWS Key Pair

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First contact with AWS EC2 Console

Let's head over to the EC2 Console (EC2 is in the Compute section); I highlighted the different sections that we'll use in the future :

Creating our Key Pair

An AWS key pair (public+private key) is mandatory to access a virtual server and must exist or be created at launch time.

If you don't intend to interactively connect to your server, you will not use it, but it has to be created nevertheless, so let's first check we are still in our AWS Region of choice...

Then use "Key Pairs", and click the tempting "Create Key Pair" button, which gives :

Enter a Key pair name of your choice as above and click "Create"...

AWS will generate a public+private key pair for you, and your web browser should automatically download the file to your machine :

Lets move it from our Downloads folder to somewhere we have a chance to find it in the future !...

I'll store it in my T:\fg-ovpn\MY-FG-OVPN folder :

We are not planning to use it, but if needed, it's safely stored here !

Keeping our AWS key pair safe