We have a Windows 2016 AMI on AWS EC2 hosting the DB (Sql Server), I'm trying to establish connection to the database from PowerBI. I'm able to connect to it only if I have an inbound rule set up for port 1433 open to the internet on the AWS security group and port 1433 configured to public access on the windows firewall. The connection string I'm using is ServerIP\SqlServerInstanceName,1433.
Please guide if there is a better way to obtain a secure connection, we need to follow HIPPA compliance so having a secure connection is at-most important...