Connect to EC2 with Session Manager and EC2 Instance Connect

There are several ways to connect to Amazon EC2 instances running Windows and Linux. In this AWS video tutorial, you'll learn how to connect to EC2 instances in public and private subnets using Amazon EC2 Instance Connect and the Instance Connect Endpoint.
You'll also learn how to connect securely to instances using AWS Systems Manager Session Manager without opening any ports on your servers.
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[@johanballin6601]

Finally a seriously useful video about an AWS service. While the vast majority of other videos are, at best, a synopsis of AWS documentation this video shoes the what and how in a very succinct and detailed way that cuts to the chase without delay. Kudos! I wish more videos were structured like this.

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[@Information-Overlord]

You absolutely nailed it Neil!
Strongly recommend this to anyone working with AWS. - Whether a newbie or a veteran. Full of useful details and just at the right pace.
Note that for SSM to work, one must have “Default Host Management” enabled in AWS Systems Manager / Fleet Manager for every region where EC2 instances are deployed (it is a per-region setting).

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[@anasanjaria]

thanks a lot. Very helpful. It would also be super helpful if you would have shown steps for connecting private instance via session manager.

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[@JulioSarmiento-z8x]

Great work. Lots of detail and easy to follow. I do wish you would have gone into how to use Session Manager to connect to a Private EC2.

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Thanks for the positive feedback! Suggestion is noted.

[@dw2291]

Great video, but I am curious how do you maintain user attribution? First two options, Users are becoming ec2user and can pivot from there without us being able to directly tell who they were? Is there a way to use our IAM creds or pass through from an IdP with these services? With session manager we have the Cloudtrail logs I suppose but the OS logs are still not going to match or does Session Manager somehow fix up the OS Logging?

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[@ftchi570]

I i believe that using ec2 instance connect for ec2 in private subnet is secure enough because we leverage the AWS backbone network through the endpoints ? Right ?

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[@blanky_nap]

didn't get how it worked. For SSM normally the instance requires AmazonSSMManagedInstanceCore policy in the instance profile. Did i miss smth?

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[@delimaha8771]

I have the exactly question. I created a new VPC . It just works. But when I create ec2 on existing VPC, it does not show up the ec2 in the private network

[@Antediluvian_analyst]

Great Job. Would definetly recommend my peers this channel.
At 18:16 (When Clicking on public instance) Got this error:
The version of SSM Agent on the instance does not support Session Manager. Update the agent to the latest version.

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[@reemdawg5980]

SSH from anywhere is a big security gap. Is there any way around this?

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[@JoeNetti]

you helped me hate AWS a little less

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