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Introducing EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint
AWS | Cloud | EIC Endpoint | Ops
Recently AWS has introduced a powerful feature to connect your public and private resources seamlessly without the need for a bastion. This feature is called EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint (EIC Endpoint). In this post, we will try to understand the feature and will find out the ways to use it.
To understand EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint, we should first understand the EC2 Instance Connect. Most of the time, the Amazon EC2 bastion host instance is associated with only one key pair for secure access. To provide access to your team this becomes an overhead sometimes. EC2 Instance Connect was launched on November 2019. It introduced a new way of securely connecting to Amazon EC2 instances without the need for managing SSH keys or key pairs manually.
EC2 Instance Connect was cool but it had its own challenges. EC2 Instance Connect relies on internet connectivity for establishing SSH connections to instances. If your instances do not have internet access or are in private subnets without internet gateways, you may need to use other methods to access them. It was only for Linux instances. etc.
AWS EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint has addressed many of these challenges and provided a much better way to connect our…
