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Tag: AWS Systems Manager Session Manager
How to automate Session Manager preferences across your organization
AWS Systems Manager Session Manager is a fully managed service that provides secure, interactive, one-click access to your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, edge devices, and virtual machines (VMs) through a browser-based shell or AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), without requiring open inbound ports, bastion hosts, or SSH keys. Session Manager helps […]
Securely extend and access on-premises Active Directory domain controllers in AWS
August 10, 2022: This blog post has been updated to reflect the new name of AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) – AWS IAM Identity Center. Read more about the name change here. If you have an on-premises Windows Server Active Directory infrastructure, it’s important to plan carefully how to extend it into Amazon Web Services (AWS) […]
Apply the principle of separation of duties to shell access to your EC2 instances
In this blog post, we will show you how you can use AWS Systems Manager Change Manager to control access to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance interactive shell sessions, to enforce separation of duties. Separation of duties is a design principle where more than one person’s approval is required to conclude a critical […]