OpenVPN Access Server Enterprise Reviews

Our infrastructure in AWS needed to be accessed only by authorized users. OpenVPN gave us the option to have our employees access the server securely from all over the world.

Some of our IT infrastructures, such as file servers and dev/testing servers, were on-premises. Maintaining and scaling these became troublesome. So, we decided to move to the AWS cloud. Once in the cloud, we needed our employees to have access from all around the world. We looked up the VPN options in AWS and OpenVPN seemed to fit our need. We have been running it for several months and it is working great for us.

To be honest, everything came pre-setup out of the box and we did not have to change much of the configuration. We do love the MFA option that forces all the users to comply.

We used Palo Alto before, but the cost was out of our budget.

We recommend checking the compliance you need for the project and picking the product that meets those requirements within the best price. For us, it was OpenVPN.

We considered Palo Alto and Cisco as alternate solutions.

We were surprised how straightforward it was to integrate with AWS. We had a little hiccup with installing the certificate, but we read the documentation and everything was sorted out. We would recommend creating tutorial videos of setup and common troubleshooting. People prefer to watch video guides rather than read documentation.

It was exceptionally easy to install and configure. It works well.

It allowed me to get through geofencing to work abroad.

The configuration is easy on both the server and client side.

The setup cost was reasonable.

I considered using Norton and Nord VPN.

I would rate it a ten out of ten.