AWS Client VPN

AWS Client VPN is a fully-managed remote access VPN solution used by your remote workforce to securely access resources within both AWS and your on-premises network. Fully elastic, it automatically scales up, or down, based on demand. When migrating applications to AWS, your users access them the same way before, during, and after the move. AWS Client VPN, including the software client, supports the OpenVPN protocol.

"Columbia University Medical Center is a clinical, research, and educational enterprise located on a campus in northern Manhattan. We have an emergency situation where due to the COVID 19 our hospital is limiting access to the campus. We needed to supplement our current physical VPN solution in order to support up to an additional 150 concurrent users with access to our datacenter and campus, so we have set up a Client VPN endpoint. With AWS Client VPN, our staff and researchers are quickly able to access the campus and continue to do research on the virus."

Robert De Boer, Deputy CIO, Columbia University Medical Center

"Shionogi is a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Osaka, Japan, with research and distribution extended worldwide. We needed to dramatically and quickly change our VPN environment to support mandated Work From Home (WFH). This applied to all employees which was practically impossible with our current system. With AWS Client VPN, we were able to turn up the VPN environment for approximately 3,000 employees in just 3 days. As a result, end-users thanked us saying that the User Experience for the remote work has been greatly improved, which proved that our IT department can make a difference to the organization. The whole experience reminded us the power of the Cloud – for its speed, flexibility, and scalability."

Kazuhiro Shirahase, Director of IT Promotion Division I, Shionogi Digital Science Co., Ltd.

"KOKUYO is a manufacturing company headquartered in Osaka, Japan, creating more value in places where people ‘work’, ‘learn’, and ‘live.’ With products and services that go beyond KOKUYO's office and school supplies, the business is expanding both in Japan and also across Asia Pacific countries. In February 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic was starting to expand, we identified the need to make changes to our existing VPN environment. Thanks to AWS Client VPN, we were able to support the rapid capacity expansion by replacing the original 550 users on our on-premises environment with 1,000 users on AWS Client VPN in the matter of 10 days. And, we were able to let it scale seamlessly from 1,000 to 4,000 users when needed, which gave us a unique experience with the elastic, scalable nature of the cloud."

Takashi Yamamura, General Manager, Information Systems, KOKUYO Co., Ltd.