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gotoaws

gotoaws is an interactive CLI tool that you can use to connect to your AWS resources (EC2, ECS container) using the AWS Systems Manager Session Manager. It provides secure and auditable resource management without the need to open inbound ports, maintain bastion hosts, or manage SSH keys.

Prerequisites

• session-manager-plugin must be installed on your client
• SSM Agent version 2.3.672.0 or later must be installed on the instances you want to connect to through sessions
• An instance profile with proper IAM permissions (e.g AmazonSSMManagedInstanceCore)
• A connection to the AWS System Manager Servive via NAT or better via VPC Endpoint to further reduce the attack surface
• Prerequisites for using ECS Exec

Installing

You can install the pre-compiled binary in several different ways

homebrew tap:

brew tap hupe1980/gotoaws
brew install gotoaws

snapcraft:

sudo snap install --classic gotoaws

scoop:

scoop bucket add gotoaws https://github.com/hupe1980/gotoaws-bucket.git
scoop install gotoaws

deb/rpm/apk:

Download the .deb, .rpm or .apk from the releases page and install them with the appropriate tools.

manually:

Download the pre-compiled binaries from the releases page and copy to the desired location.

How to use

Usage:
  gotoaws [command]

Available Commands:
  completion  Prints shell autocompletion scripts for gotoaws
  ec2         Connect to ec2
  ecs         Connect to ecs
  help        Help about any command

Flags:
  -h, --help               help for gotoaws
      --profile string     AWS profile (optional) (default "default")
      --region string      AWS region (optional)
      --timeout duration   timeout for network requests (default 15s)
  -v, --version            version for gotoaws

Use "gotoaws [command] --help" for more information about a command.

EC2

You can connect to your instances by name, ID, DNS, IP or select an instance from a list.

Usage:
  gotoaws ec2 [command]

Available Commands:
  fwd         Port forwarding
  run         Run commands
  scp         SCP over Session Manager
  session     Start a session
  ssh         SSH over Session Manager

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for ec2

Global Flags:
      --profile string     AWS profile (optional) (default "default")
      --region string      AWS region (optional)
      --timeout duration   timeout for network requests (default 15s)

Use "gotoaws ec2 [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Start a session

Usage:
  gotoaws ec2 session [flags]

Examples:
gotoaws ec2 session -t myserver

Flags:
  -h, --help            help for session
  -t, --target string   name|ID|IP|DNS of the instance (optional)

Global Flags:
      --profile string     AWS profile (optional) (default "default")
      --region string      AWS region (optional)
      --timeout duration   timeout for network requests (default 15s)

Port forwarding

Usage:
  gotoaws ec2 fwd [flags]

Examples:
gotoaws fwd run -t myserver -l 8080 -r 8080

Flags:
  -h, --help            help for fwd
  -l, --local string    local port to use (required)
  -r, --remote string   remote port to forward to (required)
  -t, --target string   name|ID|IP|DNS of the instance (optional)

Global Flags:
      --profile string     AWS profile (optional) (default "default")
      --region string      AWS region (optional)
      --timeout duration   timeout for network requests (default 15s)

Run commands

Usage:
  gotoaws ec2 run [flags]

Examples:
gotoaws ec2 run -t myserver -c 'cat /etc/passwd'

Flags:
  -c, --cmd string      command to exceute (required)
  -h, --help            help for run
  -t, --target string   name|ID|IP|DNS of the instance (optional)

Global Flags:
      --profile string     AWS profile (optional) (default "default")
      --region string      AWS region (optional)
      --timeout duration   timeout for network requests (default 15s)

SSH over Session Manager

Usage:
  gotoaws ec2 ssh [command] [flags]

Examples:
gotoaws ssh -t myserver -i key.pem

Flags:
  -h, --help              help for ssh
  -i, --identity string   file from which the identity (private key) for public key authentication is read (required)
  -L, --lforward string   local port forwarding (optional)
  -p, --port string       SSH port to us (optional) (default "22")
  -t, --target string     name|ID|IP|DNS of the instance (optional)
  -l, --user string       SSH user to us (optional) (default "ec2-user")

Global Flags:
      --profile string     AWS profile (optional) (default "default")
      --region string      AWS region (optional)
      --timeout duration   timeout for network requests (default 15s)

SCP over Session Manager

Usage:
  gotoaws ec2 scp [source(s)] [target] [flags]

Examples:
gotoaws ec2 scp file.txt /opt/ -t myserver -i key.pem

Flags:
  -h, --help              help for scp
  -i, --identity string   file from which the identity (private key) for public key authentication is read (required)
  -p, --port string       SSH port to us (optional) (default "22")
  -R, --recv              receive files from target (optional)
  -t, --target string     name|ID|IP|DNS of the instance (optional)
  -l, --user string       SCP user to us (optional) (default "ec2-user")

Global Flags:
      --profile string     AWS profile (optional) (default "default")
      --region string      AWS region (optional)
      --timeout duration   timeout for network requests (default 15s)

ECS

You can directly interact with containers without needing to first interact with the host container operating system, open inbound ports, or manage SSH keys.

Usage:
  gotoaws ecs [command]

Available Commands:
  exec        Exec into container

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for ecs

Global Flags:
      --profile string     AWS profile (optional) (default "default")
      --region string      AWS region (optional)
      --timeout duration   timeout for network requests (default 15s)

Use "gotoaws ecs [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Exec into container

Usage:
  gotoaws ecs exec [flags]

Examples:
gotoaws ecs exec --cluster demo-cluster

Flags:
      --cluster string     arn or name of the cluster (optional) (default "default")
  -c, --cmd string         command to exceute (optional) (default "/bin/sh")
      --container string   name of the container. A container name only needs to be specified for tasks containing multiple containers. (optional)
  -h, --help               help for exec
      --task string        arn or id of the task (optional)

Global Flags:
      --profile string     AWS profile (optional) (default "default")
      --region string      AWS region (optional)
      --timeout duration   timeout for network requests (default 15s)

License

MIT