Deploying a Private VPN to AWS EC2 using CloudFormation

Make the neccessary changes to the pptp-server-params.json file, being sure to define new username & password parameters

{
    "ParameterKey": "VPNUsername",
    "ParameterValue": "nathan"
},
{
    "ParameterKey": "VPNPassword",
    "ParameterValue": "passw0rd1"
},
{
    "ParameterKey": "VPNPhrase",
    "ParameterValue": "passw0rd1"
},

The template can be deployed using the AWS cli by running the following:

aws cloudformation create-stack --stack-name "pptp-vpn" \
    --template-body file://pptp-server.yaml \
    --parameters file://pptp-server-params.json \
    --region us-east-1

Note: The --region parameter is used to define which region the VPN should be deployed to.

Get details, including the Server address for your VPN:

aws cloudformation describe-stacks --stack-name "pptp-vpn" \
    --region us-east-1 \
    --query 'Stacks[0].Outputs[?OutputKey==`VPNServerAddress`].OutputValue' \
    --output text

This configuration is based on the work done by webdigi who's work can be founds below:

• How to setup your own private, secure, free* VPN on the Amazon AWS Cloud in 10 minutes
• AWS-VPN-Server-Setup