<story><title>Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2</title><url>http://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own-highend-cloud-gaming-service-on-ec2.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>micro-ram</author><text>Is Openvpn even necessary? Open 3389 to only your IP address in the security group.</text></item><item><author>Wilya</author><text>The guide advocates an EC2 security group that allows everything, plus disabling the Windows firewall. That&amp;#x27;s quite insecure, and unnecessary.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s probably better, and not more work, to create a security group that only allows:&lt;p&gt;* UDP on port 1194 (Openvpn server)
* TCP on port 3389 (Remote Desktop)
* ICMP (for ping)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davb</author><text>Yeah, using OpenVPN allows your client and server to reside on the same subnet, which I presume is necessary for Steam In-Home Streaming.</text></comment>
<story><title>Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2</title><url>http://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own-highend-cloud-gaming-service-on-ec2.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>micro-ram</author><text>Is Openvpn even necessary? Open 3389 to only your IP address in the security group.</text></item><item><author>Wilya</author><text>The guide advocates an EC2 security group that allows everything, plus disabling the Windows firewall. That&amp;#x27;s quite insecure, and unnecessary.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s probably better, and not more work, to create a security group that only allows:&lt;p&gt;* UDP on port 1194 (Openvpn server)
* TCP on port 3389 (Remote Desktop)
* ICMP (for ping)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>halotrope</author><text>You need the openVPN for the Steam IHS Lan discovery and upd streaming. With my setup I still use Hamachi which also does the job and was much easier to configure. Downside is that it is proprietary and has phases with extreme paket loss which make playing impossible every now and then.</text></comment>