🥣 Secret Sauce

Each week, we'll showcase your top AWS insights, focusing on AWS Security tricks and tips. Got a cool command-line hack, a clever console maneuver, or an awesome open-source tool? Send us your best tips for a shot at being featured in our upcoming issues.

This week, a blog post from Paul Santus: IT Manager • Software Architect • AWS Cloud Architect • I love empowering IT Teams with Agile and DevOps :)

How to use the Systems Manager (SSM) Start-Session for EC2 instances for interactive shells and port forwarding. A unique approach for Fargate-hosted containers using the container's runtimeId to facilitate SSM start-session commands, allowing secure and direct database connections. Example commands include: