AWS SSH Helpers

SSH directly into any EC2 instance in AWS by name (ie. tag). If your instances live behind a bastion machine, you can specify that by name too!

Prerequisites

• Python (2.7+)
• boto3 (e.g. pip install boto3)

Make sure you have set up your AWS credentials (using aws configure) and that you have access to all EC2 resources.

Usage

aws_ssh_by_hostname.py

usage: aws_ssh_by_hostname.py [-h] [--bastion user@bastion] [--public]
                              [--index i] [-p PORT]
                              user@machine

SSH into an EC2 instance via its name (tag)

positional arguments:
  user@machine          the name of the EC2 intance

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --bastion user@bastion
                        the name of a bastion machine to tunnel through
  --public              use the public IP of the EC2 instance (default is
                        private)
  --index i             the index of the machine if multiple machines share
                        the same Name tag
  -p PORT               the SSH port to use