In my
last post we launched an HCL Informix AWS instance and verified the engine was running, now I want to connect to this instance from my data center over the public internet.
I can't just send data back and forth without encrypting it because I don't want my data intercepted by someone in between. I'll enable TLS encryption to keep my data secret and I'll also create a transaction table, insert some data and do some basic performance testing. In later posts, I will shard this transaction table over multiple AWS Informix instances and I'll do a little prep work to make that step easier.
If you don't plan to connect to your Informix instance over the public internet and keep all of your communications between servers in the same VPC then this encryption step is unnecessary, but it is still good to know how to do it.