Connect to EC2 instance using System Manager and AWS CLI.

Prerequisites

• AWS CLI v2
• fzf - command-line fuzzy finder
• grep

AWS CLI command to list EC2 instances

# filename: list-ec2instances

aws ec2 describe-instances \
    --query 'Reservations[*].Instances[*].{
        Instance:InstanceId,
        State:State.Name,
        Name:Tags[?Key==`Name`]|[0].Value,
        Application:Tags[?Key==`Application`]|[0].Value,
        Customer:Tags[?Key==`Customer`]|[0].Value} | sort_by(@, &[0].Instance)' \
    --output table

Starting System Manager session using fzf

echo "Using the follwing profile: AWS_PROFILE=${AWS_PROFILE}"
aws ssm start-session --target $(list-ec2instances | fzf | grep -oP '\si\-[0-9a-f]*')

See also

• List Vpcs
• List Security Groups