tolocal

If you want to host your own version of this in AWS, automated with terraform, you can use https://github.com/nelsonenzo/tolocal It uses basic auth at the edge to protect the endpoint being used by anyone. The technical advantage to self hosting is bandwidth throughput. For instance, If your using a css framework that is bulky on dev, but then minimized for prod, you will often find the ngrok/cloudflare tunnels too slow to load the local host assets.

Always love these. If you wanted something more automated to spin it up/down in AWS, checkout https://github.com/nelsonenzo/tolocal

this is cool and all, love me Tailscale for sure. For this particular feature I like my own home rolled solution where I automated the process of spinning up a tiny ec2 server with an nginx proxy to a reverse ssh tunnel that goes back to my local machine. It gets a letsencrypt cert and modifies the route53 dns. All managed with a cli command and config file. The other benefit is that it is completely unthrottled, which is particularly useful if your debugging some stupidly large react/vue website. Im working on a feature that will enable basic-auth in front of it also, so at least a password would be required to send traffic to your local machine, if you wanted. Good for the "share your work" sort of scenarios. tl;dr if you want any-subdomain.your-domain.com -> localhost:port, and you use AWS, try https://github.com/nelsonenzo/toloca

i'll need to open a pull request for [tolocal](https://github.com/nelsonenzo/tolocal) :). It's clunky because it requires node and terraform and AWS, but all your stuff is self hosted and can be e2e encrypted, costs almost nothing, can be used with real domain names, etc. I would like to make it all JS at some point (the actual terraform is minimal), but it's hard to see why when Cloudflare Tunnel is a thing now.

Https://github.com/nelsonenzo/Tolocal - self hosted ngrok automated with terraform and wrapped in an nodejs cli to make it easy to configure and run (without knowing much about terraform)