AWS gave customers new ways to securely and seamlessly connect their EC2 instances in the public and private subnets without the need for a bastion host, at its annual re:Inforce security conference: AWS Instance Connect Endpoint (EIC Endpoint). Thanks to EIC Endpoint, we now have SSH and RDP connectivity to our EC2 instances using private IP addresses, without using Bastion Host.

In this article, we will create step-by-step an AWS Instance Connect Endpoint to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances in private subnets and we will connect it without the need for a Bastion Host.

Also, we will talk about AWS Instance Connect Endpoint, its feature, limitations, and the ways to use it.

We will do it all step by step.