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Replacing SSH access to reduce management and security overhead with AWS Systems Manager

Cesar Soares, DevOps and cloud infrastructure manager, VR Beneficios In many corporate enterprises, interactive shell access to cloud or datacenter environments is a necessity. It must be supported in a secure, auditable manner, often programmatic or via scripting, and with strong access controls. As discussed in a previous post by Jeff Barr, AWS Systems Manager […]

Smart RDP and SSH remediation with AWS Systems Manager Automation API actions

Here in AWS Support, I often help customers regain RDP or SSH access to their instances. It’s a common problem, but the identification of a correct solution could take some time, even hours or days if the right information isn’t available. Even with the most up-to-date playbook, it is easy to miss simple checks that […]