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Security Concern Opening Up Azure VM to AWS IPs

Çağlar Arlı      -    5 Views

Security Concern Opening Up Azure VM to AWS IPs

We have an IIS webserver hosted in Azure. We want to monitor this server via our cloud SIEM hosted in AWS. To monitor, there is a requirement to open outbound 443, on the VM, to a few hundred AWS external IPs. Without this, the webserver can't talk to the SIEM.

Within these AWS external IPs are huge network ranges from /10 all the way to /32. The concern from the team was, even if it's AWS external IPs, that they are opening up the VM to a such a large range.

I wanted to hear your take from a security standpoint. Even if they are AWS external IPs, is the concern justified? Why?