So you’ve got an Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 private instance running in a private network. Things are going well until you need to connect to your EC2 instance over the Internet. Now what? You need to set up an AWS bastion host with a public elastic IP address.

But wait, do you actually need a bastion host? Nope. In fact, you can use AWS Systems Manager (SSM) to take the place of a bastion host instance. You can then use the AWS CLI to connect to fleets of EC2 instances without exposing another host to the Internet!

Let’s dig in and see what you can do with SSM to connect to your EC2 instances with the AWS CLI! No jump server necessary.

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