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Re:LazySSH – A jump-host SSH server that starts machines on-... by kosinus on Friday November 13, 2020 @02:36PM (#25086450)
Oh, that's interesting! Didn't know AWS had that ability. Maybe then there are also some SDK functions I don't know about? I wonder why Packer doesn't go this route.

Super tiny downside to your approach: you'll be paying for storage of that instance while shut down, I guess. But that's probably peanuts.

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Re:LazySSH – A jump-host SSH server that starts machines on-... by gtsteve on Friday November 13, 2020 @06:09PM (#25088655)
I was about to comment that I looked into this a while back and they thought it would be too complicated to implement... but it seems that it was actually implemented [0] earlier this year. I haven't tried it out but that seems quite promising to me.

[0] https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/pull/9082

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