Memo: SSM Session and Port Forwarding

Updated June 8, 20241 min readMarkdown

Balman Rawat

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Install

Session Manger Plugin

AWS SSM Proxy. Optional

Start basic ssh connection

    aws ssm start-session \
    --target i-askfsa8asld

Port Forwarding

aws ssm start-session \
    --target i-00e68c055d1c0b087 \
    --document-name AWS-StartPortForwardingSession \
    --parameters '{"portNumber":["remote-host-port"], "localPortNumber":["local-port"]}'

Port Forwarding to Remote host

aws ssm start-session \
    --target i-00e68c055d1c0b087 \
    --document-name AWS-StartPortForwardingSessionToRemoteHost \
    --parameters '{"host":["remote-host-ip"],"portNumber":["remote-host-port"], "localPortNumber":["local-port"]}'

About the author

Balman Rawat
I love to grease knots and bolts of SDLC, nurture the underlying infra, rightly automate, monitor systems and enable the dev teams to achieve more with less.