Once upon a time, there was a DevOps engineer named Alex. Alex spent half his life playing "SSH Key Tetris."
Port 22 was closed. The instance didn't even need a public IP address; it just needed the SSM Agent and an outbound connection. Still using SSH on AWS? Check out Session Manager instead!
She showed him her screen. With one click in the AWS Console—or a simple command in the terminal—she was inside an instance. No bastion hosts, no managing .pem files, and no open inbound ports. Once upon a time, there was a DevOps engineer named Alex