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Re:EC2 Instance Connect by gauravphoenix on Friday June 28, 2019 @01:59AM (#20301847)
SSM session manager is basically a HTTP wrapper over a shell. You have to use browser for SSM which mostly works until it doesn't. I had trouble sometimes copy pasting to it.

This new service is basically a managed SSH so things like port forwarding etc will work. With SSM you can't do port forwarding etc because it is not SSH aware.

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Re:EC2 Instance Connect by CSDude on Friday June 28, 2019 @06:57AM (#20303087)
But this needs to expose SSH? SSM is great (although its not fast enough) because it eliminates our jumpers
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Re:EC2 Instance Connect by gauravphoenix on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:45AM (#20305526)
Yeah but then a lot of people have use cases for SSH. The solution is targeted towards replacing jump boxes.
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Re:EC2 Instance Connect by otterley on Friday June 28, 2019 @12:26PM (#20306006)
It's absolutely possible (and supported!) to connect to your instance via SSM without using a browser:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide...

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Re:EC2 Instance Connect by gauravphoenix on Friday June 28, 2019 @01:27PM (#20306713)
that's good! I hope someday the AWS CLI will come bundled "the Session Manager plugin".
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