AWS Connect Manager

• Open-source Windows tool to simplify connecting to Amazon AWS EC2 instances.
• Ever wanted to connect to your Windows or Linux instances with a single click? Give it a try!

Functionality

• Automatically reads your AWS 'credentials' file
• Single click connection to SSM, WinSCP and RDP
• Combobox to switch between AWS Profiles
• Combobox to switch betwen AWS Regions
• Auto lists all instances, providing details such as Instance Tag, Instance ID, Private IP Address, Instance Type, Platform and Availability Zone
• Easily copy to clipboard: Instance ID, IP Address or CLI SSM Command

Screenshots

• Single-click SSM, WinSCP & RDP:
• Configuration Screen

Prerequisites

• .NET Framework 4.7.2 installed on Windows
• AWS CLI - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-install.html
• AWS Credential File (.aws/credentials) - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-files.html
• Session Manager plugin for the AWS CLI - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/session-manager-working-with-install-plugin.html
• WinSCP - https://winscp.net/eng/download.php
• ConEmu (auto packaged in the Windows download), if you want to use your own version, download here: https://conemu.github.io/

WinSCP Prerequisite:

Integration with WinSCP needs some work, it currently requires a manual setup of the new WinSCP connection in WinSCP, which must be configured as follows:

• Connection Name: AWS
• File Protocol: SCP
• Host Name: localhost
• Port: 54321
• User Name: root Note: If you want SCP auto-login, you need to configure advanced settings and under SSH / Authentication, configure the path to your private key PPK file (also needs to be configured on the server.

RDP Auto-Login

• If you want RDP to auto-login to your Windows servers, enter shared RDP credentials into configuration screen. I currently advise against this practice, but if you want to go ahead, be AWARE, that currently credentials are saved into the application config file in a raw unencrypted format.

Application Download

• You can download the initial release of AWS Connect Manager for Windows (v1.0.0) in zip format from GitHub release page:
• https://github.com/JozefJarosciak/AWS-Connect-Manager/releases/download/v1.0.0/AWS_Connect_Manager-1.0.0.zip

Application Installation

• Download AWS_Connect_Manager-1.0.0.zip
• Unzip
• Run: AWS-Connect-Manager.exe

Source Code & Licensing

• This project is open-source released under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE - Version 2, June 1991.
• Feel free to fork and further enhance this project.
• Application is coded entirely in C# using Visual Studio.
• No third-party dependencies except ConEmu (open-source tabbed terminal emulator for Windows).

Support

• Having trouble? Contact me, I'll try to help as much as I can.
• Or contact me in this dedicated reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/qp5h6y/opensource_aws_connect_manager_for_windows_ssm/

Author / Contact

• Jozef Jarosciak
• LinkedIn Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jozefj