Once upon a time, there was a DevOps engineer named Alex. Alex spent half his life playing "SSH Key Tetris."
Port 22 was closed. The instance didn't even need a public IP address; it just needed the SSM Agent and an outbound connection.
Every single command Sarah typed was being logged to CloudWatch and S3. If something went wrong, Alex wouldn't have to guess what happened—he could replay the entire session.
Sarah used IAM policies to decide exactly who could log in. No more manual key rotations.
One Tuesday, while Alex was elbow-deep in a messy authorized_keys file, his teammate Sarah leaned over. "Still using SSH? You should check out ." Alex was skeptical. "Does it involve more keys?" "Zero keys," Sarah said.
She showed him her screen. With one click in the AWS Console—or a simple command in the terminal—she was inside an instance. No bastion hosts, no managing .pem files, and no open inbound ports.
Once upon a time, there was a DevOps engineer named Alex. Alex spent half his life playing "SSH Key Tetris."
Port 22 was closed. The instance didn't even need a public IP address; it just needed the SSM Agent and an outbound connection. Still using SSH on AWS? Check out Session Manager instead!
Every single command Sarah typed was being logged to CloudWatch and S3. If something went wrong, Alex wouldn't have to guess what happened—he could replay the entire session. Once upon a time, there was a DevOps engineer named Alex
Sarah used IAM policies to decide exactly who could log in. No more manual key rotations. Every single command Sarah typed was being logged
One Tuesday, while Alex was elbow-deep in a messy authorized_keys file, his teammate Sarah leaned over. "Still using SSH? You should check out ." Alex was skeptical. "Does it involve more keys?" "Zero keys," Sarah said.
She showed him her screen. With one click in the AWS Console—or a simple command in the terminal—she was inside an instance. No bastion hosts, no managing .pem files, and no open inbound ports.