M1m1keil·Jun 24, 2020
Also worth mentioning you can also tunnel with SSM, so it's possible to use plain SSH or do anything that you usually used to accomplish with bastion.
https://github.com/elpy1/ssh-over-ssm
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SSH over AWS SSM. No bastions or public-facing instances. SSH user management through IAM. No requirement to store SSH keys locally or on server.
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SSH over AWS SSM. No bastions or public-facing instances. SSH user management through IAM. No requirement to store SSH keys locally or on server.
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3 sourcesAWS Systems Manager provides a neat solution to do this [0], permission would be managed via IAM.
[0] https://github.com/elpy1/ssh-over-ssm <-- not made by me, but a good example
In Remote access to production infrastructure (death to the VPN)Show HN: Managing SSH Access to AWS EC2 Instances Using SSM
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