AWS EC2 Instance Connect

AWS EC2 Instance Connect (Jun 2019)

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Connect-using-EC2-Instance-Connect.html

Features:

• Allow use of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies and principals to control SSH access to your instances.
• one-time-use SSH public key to the instance metadata where it remains for 60 seconds

Suported by default in AMIs:

• Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20190618 or later
• Ubuntu 20.04 or later

Commands:

• aws ec2-instance-connect
• aws ec2-instance-connect send-ssh-public-key

Related

• AuthorizedKeysCommand, AuthorizedKeysCommandUser
• OpenSSH
• IAM roles for EC2 instances

See also

• AWS EC2, Amazon EC2 API, aws ec2, AWS::EC2, Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, CPU credits, Instance type, EC2 limitations, 169.254.169.254, Instance metadata and user data (IMDS), InstanceType, InstanceId, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, AWS EC2 Instance Connect, launch template, lifecycle, AWS Security group (SG), Amazon EC2 Recycle Bin, Amazon EC2 Mac Instances, Global View

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/introducing-amazon-ec2-instance-connect/