AWS CLI

Setup

• aws configure sso
  • name your profile default
  • so that you don't need to specify --profile every time you use aws-cli

Login

• aws sso login --profile "profileName"
  • the default profile is default
• Set the AWS_PROFILE=default env var

Install SSM

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/session-manager-working-with-install-plugin.html

aws ssm start-session \
  --target "container-id-ec2, like i-0373fb85e5fbc7d8e" \
  --document-name AWS-StartPortForwardingSession \
  --parameters '{"portNumber":["22"],"localPortNumber":["56789"]}'

On Windows

aws ssm start-session --target "container-id-ec2, like i-0373fb85e5fbc7d8e" --document-name AWS-StartPortForwardingSession --parameters "{\"portNumber\":[\"22\"],\"localPortNumber\":[\"56789\"]}"

ssh -p 56789 root@localhost

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Last update: 2023-04-24