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Every single command Sarah typed was being logged to CloudWatch and S3. If something went wrong, Alex wouldn't have to guess what happened—he could replay the entire session.

Alex realized he had been guarding a castle with a thousand tiny keys when he could have just used a biometric gate. He deleted his bastion host that afternoon, revoked the SSH keys, and finally went home on time. Still using SSH on AWS? Check out Session Manager instead!

Sarah used IAM policies to decide exactly who could log in. No more manual key rotations. Every single command Sarah typed was being logged

She showed him her screen. With one click in the AWS Console—or a simple command in the terminal—she was inside an instance. No bastion hosts, no managing .pem files, and no open inbound ports. He deleted his bastion host that afternoon, revoked

Port 22 was closed. The instance didn't even need a public IP address; it just needed the SSM Agent and an outbound connection.

Once upon a time, there was a DevOps engineer named Alex. Alex spent half his life playing "SSH Key Tetris."