AWS Client VPN: Using the iOS OpenVPN Client

Eden Hare
5 min readJun 8, 2020

In a previous Medium article, I presented the AWS Client VPN as a method of gaining secure access from a client machine into your AWS VPC.

This is a follow up to that article, presenting how to set up the iOS OpenVPN client and connect to your AWS Client VPN. While Apple has moved to iPadOS as the operating system for the iPad, I am going to use the generic term iOS to refer to both iOS and iPadOS.

Connecting to AWS from an iOS device

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Eden Hare

Eden is the co-author of seven books and author of more than 100 articles and book chapters in technical, management, and information security publications.