# How to prevent others from using my private GVL instance deployed on AWS

**URL:** <https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/how-to-prevent-others-from-using-my-private-gvl-instance-deployed-on-aws/6728>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Tags:** devops-administration, galaxy-cloud-legacy\
**Created:** [September 26, 2021, 5:51pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/how-to-prevent-others-from-using-my-private-gvl-instance-deployed-on-aws/6728 "2021-09-26T17:51:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![ilya716](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/help.galaxyproject.org/ilya716/32/2808_2.png) [@ilya716](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/ilya716)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 5:51pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/how-to-prevent-others-from-using-my-private-gvl-instance-deployed-on-aws/6728/1 "2021-09-26T17:51:59Z")

</div>

I have my personal WGS 100x data in such a big CRAM file (183 GB) that I am not able to work on using public Galaxy servers. So I tried to launch my own GVL instance on AWS.

Unfortunately now everyone can register and use my GVL instance and I doubt I could allow this financial wise.

So I my Q is: how to prevent others from using my private GVL instance deployed on AWS?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![ilya716](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/help.galaxyproject.org/ilya716/32/2808_2.png) [@ilya716](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/ilya716)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 6:01am UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/how-to-prevent-others-from-using-my-private-gvl-instance-deployed-on-aws/6728/2 "2021-09-28T06:01:41Z")

</div>

Solved

insert into Galaxy-app/config/galaxy.ini the following lines:

allow\_user\_creation = False  
require\_login = True

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jennaj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/help.galaxyproject.org/jennaj/32/27_2.png) [@jennaj](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/jennaj)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 5:32pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/how-to-prevent-others-from-using-my-private-gvl-instance-deployed-on-aws/6728/3 "2021-09-28T17:32:21Z")

</div>

Hi @ilya716

Someone would have to guess the server’s URL first but the extra layer of restricting access is a good change. Thanks for posting the solution back to the forum! 🙂