I Moved My Database Behind a VPN on AWS — Here's Every Step (With the Networking Concepts That Actually Matter)

📰 Dev.to · Tirth T

Our MySQL RDS was open to the entire internet. Here's how I built a private subnet + OpenVPN server on AWS from scratch — with real commands, real mistakes, and the networking fundamentals nobody explains.

Published 12 Mar 2026
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