Help with troubleshooting VPN endpoint

Hi, after looking on couple of guides, I tried to create a VPN in AWS.

Currently, in doesn’t work. Each time the message is a little different, and I’m not sure what I did wrong, how can I troubleshoot the issue?

I start on a new region in order not to damage the existing configuration in the main region I use.

I created certificate with easyrsa aws guide

then I created client VPN endpoint base on base VPC that AWS create by default.

Added associated authorization rules (AWS default) and security groups (AWS default)

after a couple of minutes, the state become available, and I tried to use AWS VPN client.

It doesn’t create logs that I can check, and the message is not very helpful.

I saw a couple of guide how to create VPN on AWS like this, and they all pretty much do the same, no sure what I missed.

Thanks for help


On a mac the logs are at /private/tmp/AcvcHelperErrLog.txt and /private/tmp/AcvcHelperOutLog.txt.
You can also start the client from the terminal to see stdout.

Thanks found it, it looks like the private key is created the error. I’ll try to create new keys and check again.