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Connect to an EC2 instance with AWS Systems Manager

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Connect to an EC2 instance with AWS Systems Manager

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- [Instructor] So, we've been able to connect to our instance via SSH, but it's not the most secure thing. Having port 22 open to the world means that any attacker can try to SSH to our machine and gain access. Now of course, they won't have a key to get in, but it would just be more secure if we didn't have that port open at all. In order to connect to this instance without the use of SSH, we're going to use a service called AWS Systems Manager. Now, Systems Manager is a whole service unto itself, which you can reach through the selection here or by searching Systems Manager. And if you look around, you'll see it has all kinds of features for managing fleets of systems. You can use it to install packages on instances, do other kinds of en masse configuration, and we're going to use this later actually when we need to install the CodeDeploy agent on some instances. But for right now, to let Systems Manager help us access our machine, all we need to do is go back to the home console…

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