Remote-access Guide

amazon's remote access delivery

by Vilma Keeling Published 2 years ago Updated 2 years ago
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How do I track my package from Amazon?

You can track your Amazon order in Your Orders. If you need more detailed help with tracking your package, please visit Track Your Package. You can learn more about Estimated Delivery Windows here. If no one is at the address when delivery is attempted, we will leave the package in a secure location.

What happens if Amazon doesn't deliver my package?

If the third delivery attempt is unsuccessful your package will be returned to Amazon for a refund. You may find that the tracking will sometimes show that a package has been delivered, but you haven't received it.

Why do I need to login and access RDS remotely?

For increased productivity and ease of use, in many cases, there is a need to login and access the RDS instance remotely from your favorite tools in your workstation without having to first login to the remote EC2 instance.

What do I do if my Amazon delivery is dangerous?

If you witness or experience a serious on-road incident involving a delivery driver, please Secure your own safety. Call 911 if police or emergency medical services are needed. Report the incident to Amazon by calling 844-311-0406 to receive 24/7 immediate assistance. You can track your Amazon order in Your Orders.

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What is the most remote place Amazon delivers to?

They are Leh, India locals who don't need maps to find their way on their delivery routes. This mountain road is blocked by snow and frequent rockslides for months each year. Even during summer, snow-capped peaks ring this high mountain town.

How do Amazon delivery drivers get into gated communities?

When a package arrives at your home, delivery drivers are given one-time, secure access via the Ring Access Controller Pro 2 to pass through your gate and bring the package to the front door of your home or apartment.

Do Amazon drivers have gate codes?

No More gate codes on your order and no more gate codes for Amazon Delivery Drivers! Therefore much safer. Security challenges and technology are always changing in the digital world, so we give our "Thanks to the Gate Committee" for applying their engineering and IT security background to analyze gate systems.

What is Amazon KFB?

Amazon Key for Business is a smart fob that allows Amazon drivers to enter a building and deliver shipments without the assistance of the building's staff. To be eligible, a building or gated community must have 10 or more units that order deliveries directly from Amazon.

Do delivery drivers have gate codes?

Residents and visitors can enter a four-digit access PIN into the keypad to open the gate. United States Postal Service (USPS) workers are often given the code to complete their deliveries. Customers who live inside gated communities that use keypads may text the code to delivery drivers.

How do you get deliveries in a gated community?

Best of all, trusted apps can automatically provide access when deliveries are made to a gated community. As time goes on, gate access apps will increasingly integrate with major app-based services, such as Grubhub, Uber, or Lyft.

How do Amazon drivers get into apartment buildings?

Amazon installs a device for free at the front door of a building, which allows drivers to unlock the door through the Amazon mobile app. The program launched in 2018. Drivers must confirm with Amazon their identity, route and location. Access to a building is a one-time use and expires.

How did Amazon get my door code?

The driver knocks on the door, and then requests to unlock the door via their Amazon handheld scanner. Amazon verifies that the driver is near your door, and that the package belongs to your address. Once confirmed, if available, the security camera is turned on and then the door is unlocked.

Does Amazon delivery have keys for apartment buildings?

Amazon's Key for Business, a system that allows its delivery drivers to gain access to apartment buildings without having to be buzzed in, has been installed in thousands of buildings across the US, according to the Associated Press.

Does Amazon have access to apartments?

The company said it does background checks on delivery people and that they can unlock doors only when they have a package in hand to scan. But tenants may not know that Amazon drivers have access to their building's front doors, since Amazon leaves it up to the building to notify them.

Who are Amazon's key partners?

Manufacturers, third-party sellers, publishers and digital content producers are all key partners in Amazon's operations. Manufacturers of the physical goods that are stocked in Amazon's warehouses are the obvious key partners.

How much is Amazon key for Business?

nothingHow much does Amazon Key for Business cost? Amazon Key for Business is 100% free of charge to you. By integrating with your existing access system, installation is quick and simple and costs nothing.

Tracking Your Order

You can track your Amazon order in Your Orders. If you need more detailed help with tracking your package, please visit Track Your Package.

Delivery Information

If no one is at the address when delivery is attempted, we will leave the package in a secure location. If no secure location is available, or the delivery requires someone to be present, Amazon will send an e-mail to the e-mail address on file. We'll make three delivery attempts on consecutive days.

Access Codes and Delivery Instructions

If the delivery address requires an access code, please provide this code prior to your item shipping via Manage Address Book. Locate the address you want to update and click "Edit" then provide the access code in the field "Security Access Code." This information will be saved and applied to any future orders you place.

Weekend Delivery Preference

When adding a new address, you can choose whether or not you want to receive deliveries on weekends under the "Optional Delivery Preference" menu. You can update this preference via Manage Address Book.

Notifications

If you sign up for Shipment Updates via Text, you'll also receive updates on your phone or other mobile device.

Customer Service

Amazon Customer Service handles all inquiries for deliveries shipped with Amazon.

Solution overview

I will walk you through the steps for building a web based local proxy to gain access to remote devices using secure tunneling. The local proxy is a software proxy that runs on the source, and destination devices. The local proxy relays a data stream over a WebSocket secure connection between the Secure tunneling service and the device application.

Walkthrough

The first step is to open a tunnel and download the access tokens for the source and destination as described in open a tunnel and start SSH session to remote device.

Cleaning up

To avoid incurring future charges, delete the resources created during this walkthrough.

Conclusion

Secure Tunneling provides a secure, remote access solution that directly integrates with AWS IoT to allow you to access your IoT devices remotely from anywhere.

Overview

The following diagram, shows the high-level architecture of an example scenario of using AWS Client VPN and connecting to an RDS instance.

Generating a certificate

For instructions on creating a server certificate using OpenVPN easy-rsa tool, see Mutual authentication.

Creating a VPC and subnets

Create a VPC to host the subnets and the subnet group for the RDS instance with the following code:

Creating a security group

Create a security group to be used by the AWS Client VPN endpoint and the RDS instance with the following code:

Creating an AWS Client VPN endpoint

Create an AWS Client VPN endpoint and attach it to the VPC with the following code. You use the client IP4 CIDR to assign IP addresses to the client connections. Use your own server certificate arn generated in the previous step.

Creating an Active directory

Because the SQL Server RDS instance also uses Windows authentication, create an Active Directory to be associated to the RDS instance:

Creating the SQL Server RDS instance

To create an RDS instance, you need to create a subnet group and a directory service AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role. This IAM role uses the managed IAM policy AmazonRDSDirectoryServiceAccess and allows Amazon RDS to make calls to the active directory.

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