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CloudFormation stack to setup EC2 instance running pivpn/pi-hole

In this stack:

• Pi-hole® is configured to use Quad9 DNS
• PiVPN is configured to use Wireguard
• PiVPN is configured for Ubuntu AMI/ubuntu user
• EC2 instance uses a t2.micro instance
• EC2 uses a EBS encrypted SSD generic volume
• Access to the instance is restricted via Session Manager only (no SSH)

Further readings

• yawnbox blog post which inspired me to do this template
• Pi-hole® repository
• PiVPN repository
• Medium post about this template, with some human readable description of the infrastructure

Thanks to

@mrkrash, one day in Genova, unintentionally and without knowing, he reminded me that I never setup a VPN for fun and led me to ask myself "Why?"