My work has given me a remote windows desktop to use, that I access using AWS.

Through this windows desktop (accessed via a chrome web-browser), I can SSH into a compute node to do work.

I dont actually need this virtual desktop, I’d rather just SSH from my local machine directly to the compute node, using the remote desktop’s network without having to spawn the desktop itself.

Ive been reading up about SSM agents[0] as a solution, but am unsure if I have the priveledges to do this myself.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/session-manager-getting-started-enable-ssh-connections.html#ssh-connections-enable

Is this something I can easily do using the AWS credentials that I have?

  • Shareni@programming.dev
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    4 hours ago

    I’m not sure what you use by workspaces, I haven’t touched windows in a while.

    Wouldn’t a bastion with SSO do the same thing? In both cases OP needs to pass AWS based security checks in order to ssh from the bastion instance. And both options can be locked down by enterprise standards.

    • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      Workspaces is an AWS service that creates desktops that can be used via a workspace client or through the web browser like guacamole project. It’s main feature is the data stays in AWS not on local hardware.