Still Using Ssh On Aws? Check Out Session Manager Instead! Apr 2026

Once upon a time, there was a DevOps engineer named Alex. Alex spent half his life playing "SSH Key Tetris."

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. Still using SSH on AWS? Check out Session Manager instead!

Port 22 was closed. The instance didn't even need a public IP address; it just needed the SSM Agent and an outbound connection. Once upon a time, there was a DevOps engineer named Alex