Getting started with Session Manager

Before you use Session Manager to connect to the EC2 instances in your account, complete the steps in the following topics.

Topics

• Step 1: Complete Session Manager prerequisites
• Step 2: Verify or create an IAM instance profile with Session Manager permissions
• Step 3: Control user session access to instances
• Step 4: Configure session preferences
• Step 5: (Optional) Restrict access to commands in a session
• Step 6: (Optional) use PrivateLink to set up a VPC endpoint for Session Manager
• Step 7: (Optional) disable or enable ssm-user account administrative permissions
• Step 8: (Optional) Enable SSH connections through Session Manager