I am the it admin for my wife's architectural office, and so far things have been running pretty smoothly for the 3 person office using various Cloud and P2P solutions, avoiding servers and hardware as long as possible. But now I have a need for a dedicated server to serve as
- CodeMeter licensing server for ArchiCad
- Always-on read-only sync peer for Resilio Sync to have sync capabilities off-hours for remote work
This server will be a virtual one running on AWS. The actual setup and of those things is fine, but I was wondering how I can best make that server act as part of the local network without exposing it to the public? I would like to keep it behind AWS firewalls, so I am guessing some kind of VPN solution is needed. Or is there other ways of doing this that I should be aware of? Have been looking at Hamachi for the VPN/VLAN part, but not sure how well it works. Really hoping to find a solution where people don't need to manually activate some VPN solution, but where it just works (tm).