Written by Craig Lurey
One of the selling points of cloud computing is the ability to quickly spin up new machines as needed. Unfortunately, this means that cloud environments grow very complex, very quickly – and manually updating configuration files to add new instances gets really old, really fast. It’s easy to make a mistake, which inhibits productivity and causes security issues, especially when accessing machines remotely.
Keeper is pleased to announce that Keeper Connection Manager (KCM), our agentless remote desktop gateway, now integrates with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to automatically discover and connect to EC2 instances. This allows IT admins and DevOps teams to quickly and easily find and connect to any EC2 instance in their AWS environment, without the time and hassle of editing a config file.
Once connected, the instances appear on your KCM home screen, as illustrated below.
You can restrict permissions for discovered instances to a defined User Group, so that only authorized users can see them. Additionally, you can use AWS EC2 tags to override and customize instance defaults and metadata:
To use the new AWS EC2 Discovery feature, you’ll need to update your Keeper Connection Manager environment to support it. There are three ways to do that:
Want to find out more about how Keeper Connection Manager can provide your IT and DevOps teams with effortless zero-trust access to remote infrastructure? Visit the KCM product page or reach out to our team today.
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