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You are actively encouraging a process that is vulnerable to MITM, not acknowledging that between regions AWS data transfer is over the public internet [http://

You are actively encouraging a process that is vulnerable to MITM, not acknowledging that between regions AWS data transfer is over the public internet [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9891419/can-ec2-instances-in-different-regions-communicate-over-their-private-ip-address http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9891419/can-ec2-instances...], etc. I strongly suggest you evaluate something like http://www.tarsnap.com/spiped.html http://www.tarsnap.com/spiped.html, a VPN, or a similar solution. This isn't just read-only access we are talking about.

_bpo 13y ago
I absolutely acknowledge that inter-region AWS usage is over the open Internet, and no one's encouraging bad habits like transferring unencrypted data between regions here. VPNs are great. AWS security groups are reliable too.
- opendais 13y ago
  I may have overreacted but I've seen people make statements like "We consider this reasonably safe within EC2..." and not realize the inter-region issue. That is why I wanted to force a clear statement. I also think this really needs to be in your marketing copy or someone who is unaware of that is going to do that sort of thing. Sorry if I'm being a pain but I think you are overestimating the average developer's knowledge of the potential security issues with exposing Redis like this.
  - thibaut_barrere 13y ago
    Heroku offers 4 redis cloud providers. I wonder how many setups (if any) happen to go through inter-region, and if some of these providers support some kind of VPN/tunneling. - https://addons.heroku.com/openredis https://addons.heroku.com/openredis - https://addons.heroku.com/rediscloud https://addons.heroku.com/rediscloud - https://addons.heroku.com/redistogo https://addons.heroku.com/redistogo - https://addons.heroku.com/redisgreen https://addons.heroku.com/redisgreen
    - itamarhaber 13y ago
      Redis Cloud instances are at the same region as Heroku's (both in the US and the EU) - don't know about the rest though.

_bpo 13y ago

I absolutely acknowledge that inter-region AWS usage is over the open Internet, and no one's encouraging bad habits like transferring unencrypted data between regions here. VPNs are great. AWS security groups are reliable too.

opendais 13y ago
I may have overreacted but I've seen people make statements like "We consider this reasonably safe within EC2..." and not realize the inter-region issue. That is why I wanted to force a clear statement. I also think this really needs to be in your marketing copy or someone who is unaware of that is going to do that sort of thing. Sorry if I'm being a pain but I think you are overestimating the average developer's knowledge of the potential security issues with exposing Redis like this.
- thibaut_barrere 13y ago
  Heroku offers 4 redis cloud providers. I wonder how many setups (if any) happen to go through inter-region, and if some of these providers support some kind of VPN/tunneling. - https://addons.heroku.com/openredis https://addons.heroku.com/openredis - https://addons.heroku.com/rediscloud https://addons.heroku.com/rediscloud - https://addons.heroku.com/redistogo https://addons.heroku.com/redistogo - https://addons.heroku.com/redisgreen https://addons.heroku.com/redisgreen
  - itamarhaber 13y ago
    Redis Cloud instances are at the same region as Heroku's (both in the US and the EU) - don't know about the rest though.