Overview
The Zscaler Private Access (ZPA) service enables organizations to provide access to internal applications and services while ensuring the security of their networks. ZPA is an easier to deploy, more cost-effective, and more secure alternative to VPNs. Unlike VPNs, which require users to connect to your network to access your enterprise applications, ZPA allows you to give users policy-based secure access only to the internal apps they need to get their work done. With ZPA, application access does not require network access.
While ZPA is for connecting users to an enterprise's internal applications, Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) is for connecting users to public applications on the internet. To learn more about ZIA architecture, see About the ZIA Cloud Architecture.
Additionally, ZPA decouples applications from the physical network so you can provide seamless connectivity to private internal applications and assets whether they are in the cloud, the data center, or both. It also adjusts dynamically to network changes, so you can move your resources without impacting user access.
You can configure settings and policies on a central ZPA Admin Portal, which also feature dashboards where you can see your users and the apps they access, and monitor the health of your servers and resources. You can configure ZPA to automatically discover servers and applications when users request them, or you can configure them manually as well. You then define policies that specify which apps users or groups can use, and ZPA allows them to connect to those apps only. ZPA renders your applications invisible to all but the authorized users and unroutable to anyone.
Like all Zscaler offerings the ZPA service is based on Zscaler's global cloud platform. So, there is no requirement for additional hardware or upgrades to existing hardware.
Highlights
- Zscaler Client Connector: Installed on your users' devices, the Zscaler Client Connector connects to the ZPA cloud to enable granular, policy-based access to your organization's internal resource.
- App Connectors: Lightweight virtual machines (VM) that are installed in the data centers that host your servers and applications. They connect to ZPA Public Service Edges or ZPA Private Service Edges only to provide users access to applications in your data center, and do not accept inbound connections.
- Global Zscaler Cloud: Stitches all components together. The Central Authority (CA) provides a central location for software updates as well as policy and configuration settings. The ZPA Public Service Edges or ZPA Private Service Edges enforce user policies and provides secure transport to the App Connectors.
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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For Release notes pleae access this link: https://help.zscaler.com/zpa/documentation-knowledgebase/release-notes/zpa-app-connector-release-notes
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In order to acquire a license key for this product, please contact us via our web form here: https://www.zscaler.com/company/contact .
Once complete, you may access the User Interface of the Zscaler Cloud Portal by accessing this link here: https://admin.zscaler.net/ . If not completed prior, you will be promoted to create an Admin account for your Zscaler Cloud Portal.
Utilizing the login you created, you may now utilize the Zscaler Cloud Portal to access your Zscaler management console where you will be able to manage and deploy new products on AWS, or other locations.
For ZPA Connector AWS Deployment see the below:
Update the Security Group associated to the App Connector to temporarily allow inbound access on port 22, then complete the following steps to connect to the instance.
SSH access is required in order to configure the provisioning key for the App Connector. See instructions: https://help.zscaler.com/zpa/connector-deployment-guide-amazon-web-services#security
Log in to the App Connector console using your AWS Private Key (i.e., a .pem file).
SSH access is enabled by default on AWS App Connectors, so there is no need to enable the service manually.
Using a standard SSH client, enter the following command to connect to the AWS instance: ssh -i <AWS Private Key> admin@<App Connector Public Hostname or IP Address>
For example, the private key for the AWS instance is AWS.pem and the App Connector IP address is 35.160.130.25: ssh -i AWS.pem admin@35.160.130.25
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