Systems Manager Session Manager¶
TLDR¶
Instead of using SSH or EC2InstanceConnect you can use the Session Manager to access your EC2 Instances. Also simplifies access to machines in private subnets.
- Allows to start shell on EC2 and on premise servers
- No SSH port opening needed
- No bastion host needed
- No SSH keys needed
- Runs on linux, win or mac
- Send session log data to S3 or CloudWatch
- Shell is open from SSM to EC2 and is herby locked within AWS