Setting up Session Manager
Before you use Session Manager to connect to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon 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 AWS 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
