Tag: SSH keys

July 2, 2025: The approach in this blog post is no longer required or recommended to manage SSH keys for EC2 Instances. We instead recommend using EC2 Instance Connect that uses AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies and principals to control SSH access to your instances, removing the need to share and manage SSH […]

August 31, 2021: AWS KMS is replacing the term customer master key (CMK) with AWS KMS key and KMS key. The concept has not changed. To prevent breaking changes, AWS KMS is keeping some variations of this term. More info. Recently, we launched AWS Secrets Manager, a service that makes it easier to rotate, manage, […]

Updated May 21, 2014: Clarified that for the Mac, the private key is stored in memory and the passphrase in the keychain. Important note: You should enable SSH agent forwarding with caution. When you set up agent forwarding, a socket file is created on the forwarding host, which is the mechanism by which the key […]