Amazon IoT secure tunneling tutorials
Amazon IoT secure tunneling helps customers establish bidirectional communication to remote devices that are behind a firewall over a secure connection managed by Amazon IoT.
To demo Amazon IoT secure tunneling, use our Amazon IoT secure tunneling
demo on GitHub
The following tutorials will help you learn how to get started and use secure tunneling. You'll learn how to:
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Create a secure tunnel using the quick setup and manual setup methods for accessing the remote device.
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Configure the local proxy when using the manual setup method and connect to the tunnel to access the destination device.
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SSH into the remote device from a browser without having to configure the local proxy.
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Convert a tunnel created using the Amazon CLI or using the manual setup method to use the quick setup method.
Tutorials in this section
The tutorials in this section focus on creating a tunnel using the Amazon Web Services Management Console and the
Amazon IoT API Reference. In the Amazon IoT console, you can create a tunnel from the Tunnels
hub
Following shows the tutorials in this section:
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Open a tunnel and use browser-based SSH to access remote device
This tutorial shows how to open a tunnel from the Tunnels hub
page using the quick setup method. You'll also learn how to use browser-based SSH to access the remote device using an in-context command line interface within the Amazon IoT console. -
Open a tunnel using manual setup and connect to remote device
This tutorial shows how to open a tunnel from the Tunnels hub
page using the manual setup method. You'll also learn how to configure and start the local proxy from a terminal in your source device and connect to the tunnel. -
Open a tunnel for remote device and use browser-based SSH
This tutorial shows how to open a tunnel from the details page of a thing that you created. You'll learn how to create a new tunnel and use an existing tunnel. The existing tunnel corresponds to the most recent, open tunnel that was created for the device. You can also use the browser-based SSH to access the remote device.