Network connectivity

Decodable Connectors require network connectivity to resources, like databases, to read or write data. These connections can be made in different ways:

  • Public internet

  • Private connectivity with AWS PrivateLink

  • SSH Tunnels

See below for more details.

Public internet

By default Decodable will attempt to connect to your systems over the public internet. As a result, things like host names must be resolvable, and IP addresses must be routable. If you need to explicitly approve connections, our public IP addresses per AWS region are as follows:

AWS Region IP Addresses

ap-southeast-2

  • 54.79.178.25

  • 3.24.174.157

  • 54.66.91.180

af-south-1

  • 13.247.8.169

  • 13.246.95.241

  • 13.246.203.137

eu-central-1

  • 18.158.40.109

  • 18.159.175.142

  • 18.193.1.236

us-east-1

  • 44.210.12.91

  • 44.208.143.30

  • 52.5.150.139

  • 52.4.58.41

  • 44.195.57.218

us-west-2

  • 35.160.167.162

  • 54.203.83.22

  • 44.226.160.138

  • 52.36.183.59

AWS PrivateLink allows Decodable to access services in your private VPC without exposing them to the public Internet. To connect with PrivateLink you must create a Network Load Balancer and VPC Endpoint Service in your VPC, and provide the Endpoint Service to Decodable support to establish connectivity.

Decodable connects to a customer service via a VPC Endpoint Service and AWS Network Load Balancer

AWS MSK multi-VPC connectivity

AWS Managed Service for Kafka (MSK) offers Multi-VPC Connectivity to connect private MSK clusters without exposing them on the public Internet.

To connect your private MSK cluster to Decodable you must enable multi-VPC connectivity, and provide the cluster ARN to Decodable support to establish connectivity.

SSH tunnels

SSH tunnels allow Decodable to connect securely to resources that can’t be exposed to the internet. To connect using SSH Tunnels you will configure a public SSH server and add a Decodable-provided public key to your authorized keys.

Decodable connects to a customer service via an SSH client on the Decodable side and an SSH service in the customer network

Contact Decodable support for help managing connectivity to your data infrastructure, or to configure PrivateLink or SSH tunnels for your connections.

For instructions on how to create a connection to a specific data source or sink, refer to the topic in the documentation specific to the connector that you are using.