# Adopting AWS VPC Endpoints at Square

DevFeed: [Adopting AWS VPC Endpoints at Square](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/adopting-aws-vpc-endpoints-at-square-15490.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.squareup.com/blog/adopting-aws-vpc-endpoints-at-square>)

Author: Harihara Krishnan Narayanan

Published: 2019-12-20T20:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Square Corner Blog RSS Feed](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/square-corner-blog-rss-feed.md>)

Topics: [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [VPC](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vpc.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [data centers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-centers.md>), [AWS IAM](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws-iam.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-simple-queue-service-sqs.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>)

Tags: [audit](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/audit.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [data-centers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-centers.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [iam](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/iam.md>), [integration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/integration.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [services](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/services.md>), [sqs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sqs.md>), [vpc](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vpc.md>)

## AI overview

Square describes adopting AWS VPC Endpoints with IAM policies to secure communication between its data centers and managed AWS services. The article discusses the limitations of routing access through an egress proxy, including potential reliability issues and the risk of data exfiltration to non-Square AWS accounts.

## Source excerpt

Secure communication between data centers and the cloud