[gauravphoenix]

SSM session manager is basically a HTTP wrapper over a shell. You have to use browser for SSM which mostly works until it doesn't. I had trouble sometimes copy pasting to it.

This new service is basically a managed SSH so things like port forwarding etc will work. With SSM you can't do port forwarding etc because it is not SSH aware.

[CSDude]

But this needs to expose SSH? SSM is great (although its not fast enough) because it eliminates our jumpers

[gauravphoenix]

Yeah but then a lot of people have use cases for SSH. The solution is targeted towards replacing jump boxes.

[otterley]

It's absolutely possible (and supported!) to connect to your instance via SSM without using a browser:

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

[gauravphoenix]

that's good! I hope someday the AWS CLI will come bundled "the Session Manager plugin".