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by scrollaway 3004 days ago
Do you know a good guide with standard practices for setting up and securing bastion hosts (preferably on aws)?
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If you don’t require interactive sessions, consider using AWS SSM run command [1] instead. You install the agent on the instances, with commands sent from the client through the AWS control plane (with IAM and SSM documents for access control and CloudTrail logs of all commands issued).

I’m currently deploying it in an enterprise for ~5k users, and it works surprisingly well for providing the ability to run arbitrary commands on instances without ssh access.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide...