aws-ec2-ssh

Handling AWS Keys Options

• Send in keys using --aws-key and --aws-secret
• Create ~/.aws/credentials file with the following contents:

[Credentials]
aws_access_key_id = [AWS ACCESS KEY ID HERE]
aws_secret_access_key = [AWS SECRET ACCESS KEY HERE]

• Add environmental variables called AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

Retrieving All Active Instances

$ aws-ec2-ssh --active

Output:

Tags    Public DNS Name                             IP Address        Type          Launch Time
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ec1     ec2-XX-X-XXX-XXX.compute-1.amazonaws.com    XX-X-XXX-XXX      m3.medium     2015-05-27T15:31:50.000Z 

SSH Into An Instance

• The following will only work if your .pem AWS authentication file is in the same directory as the script

$ aws-ec2-ssh --ssh ec1

• If your .pem AWS authentication file is in another directory

$ aws-ec2-ssh --ssh ec1 --pem /Path/To/Pem/File

• If you don't have your AWS keys saved on your machine:

$ aws-ec2-ssh --ssh ec1 --aws-key [AWS ACCESS KEY ID HERE] --aws-secret [AWS SECRET ACCESS KEY HERE]

• If you don't want to SSH as ubuntu

$ aws-ec2-ssh --ssh ec1 --ssh-user ubuntu