3 years ago

This year watching reinvent from my couch I saw Werner Vogels describe AWS Cloudshell as a new abstraction similar to AWS Workspaces, which had me hooked. The AWS documentation and most of the use cases were around how to use AWS Cloudshell as an IDE using VIM to write code and then using AWS CodePipelines to kick off any builds, don’t get me wrong CICD is definitely a hot topic but other use cases around VPCs would be nice.

Unfortunately the answer was that you cannot use AWS Cloudshell with VPC resources.

By combining AWS Session Manager and AWS Cloudshell we can get rid of all PEM, secret, and access keys.

Hopefully now you can sleep safely never worrying about SSH, RDP ports, accidentally committing secrets, or credential rotation knowing with AWS Cloudshell and AWS Session Manager you simply do not have any keys to worry about and in the immortal words of Werner Vogel: “Now go build.”