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Discussion on: Remotely Connect to Your Instances without a Public IP Address

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Peter Eskandar AWS Community Builders

Hi Sena,
Thanks for the great article,

so the only differences between EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint and SSM Session Manager :

  • no need to install SSM Agent on your EC2 instances
  • the ability to track connections via Cloudtrail

is it right ?

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basebandit • Edited

Not only that, For EC2 Instance Connect you will need to make use of a ssh key pair ,while for AWS SSM you do not need as it uses HTTPS. Also note that most of the recommended Amazon AMIs come with aws-ssm agent preinstalled. Nice article @senaykt