Is there an active AWS Cloudformation template to launch UE5?

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I’m using NICE DCV too! It works fine without a cloud formation template. You do need to “decrypt the administrator password” once using some process that the help files talk about if you google for it.

I believe running a Windows machine on the open internet with all ports open used to be a really bad idea. These days it’s no worse an idea than doing the same thing for a Linux box, but I wouldn’t do that for Linux, either :slight_smile:

I was mistaken in what ports you need in the comment above. Here’s my security group definition (with IDs masked for paranoia):

{
    "SecurityGroups": [
        {
            "Description": "Windows RDP",
            "GroupName": "ue-windows-rdp",
            "IpPermissions": [
                {
                    "FromPort": 8443,
                    "IpProtocol": "udp",
                    "IpRanges": [
                        {
                            "CidrIp": "0.0.0.0/0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "Ipv6Ranges": [],
                    "PrefixListIds": [],
                    "ToPort": 8443,
                    "UserIdGroupPairs": []
                },
                {
                    "FromPort": 3389,
                    "IpProtocol": "udp",
                    "IpRanges": [
                        {
                            "CidrIp": "0.0.0.0/0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "Ipv6Ranges": [],
                    "PrefixListIds": [],
                    "ToPort": 3389,
                    "UserIdGroupPairs": []
                },
                {
                    "FromPort": 8443,
                    "IpProtocol": "tcp",
                    "IpRanges": [
                        {
                            "CidrIp": "0.0.0.0/0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "Ipv6Ranges": [],
                    "PrefixListIds": [],
                    "ToPort": 8443,
                    "UserIdGroupPairs": []
                },
                {
                    "FromPort": 3389,
                    "IpProtocol": "tcp",
                    "IpRanges": [
                        {
                            "CidrIp": "0.0.0.0/0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "Ipv6Ranges": [],
                    "PrefixListIds": [],
                    "ToPort": 3389,
                    "UserIdGroupPairs": []
                }
            ],
            "OwnerId": "XXXX",
            "GroupId": "sg-XXXX",
            "IpPermissionsEgress": [
                {
                    "IpProtocol": "-1",
                    "IpRanges": [
                        {
                            "CidrIp": "0.0.0.0/0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "Ipv6Ranges": [],
                    "PrefixListIds": [],
                    "UserIdGroupPairs": []
                }
            ],
            "VpcId": "vpc-XXXX"
        }
    ]
}

It’s ports 8443 and 3389 on TCP and UDP.

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