One Tuesday, while Alex was elbow-deep in a messy authorized_keys file, his teammate Sarah leaned over. "Still using SSH? You should check out ." Alex was skeptical. "Does it involve more keys?" "Zero keys," Sarah said.
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. Still using SSH on AWS? Check out Session Manager instead!
Alex realized he had been guarding a castle with a thousand tiny keys when he could have just used a biometric gate. He deleted his bastion host that afternoon, revoked the SSH keys, and finally went home on time. One Tuesday, while Alex was elbow-deep in a
Every single command Sarah typed was being logged to CloudWatch and S3. If something went wrong, Alex wouldn't have to guess what happened—he could replay the entire session. "Does it involve more keys