Useful AWS CLI Commands

SSM

• make sure you can ping host within the ec2 instance or use telnet

aws ssm start-session --target ec2-instance-id \
--document-name AWS-StartPortForwardingSessionToRemoteHost \
--parameters host="your-host",portNumber="host-port",localPortNumber="your-port"

• example for something like Aurora MySQL Cluster

aws ssm start-session --target i-######## \
--document-name AWS-StartPortForwardingSessionToRemoteHost \
--parameters host="name.cluster-randomchars.region.rds.amazonaws.com",portNumber="3306",localPortNumber="9000"