Quick bash/awscli functions for connecting to AWS instances by instance IDs.
To "install", clone the repo somewhere and add source <clone dir>/awsconnect/awsconnect.sh to one of your startup scripts (e.g. .bashrc, .zshrc or .zshenv ). Then run source on that file to start using AWS-Connect immediately!
- AWS CLI installed and configured.
- SSH key file for connecting to your instances.
- Instance ID and region as listed in AWS console.
To connect to an instance (and start it if it's turned off):
awsgo <key_file> <region> <instance_id>
To start an EC2 instance:
awsstart <region> <instance_id>
To get the DNS of an instance by its ID:
awsgetdns <region> <instance_id>
To get the public DNS of an instance by its Name tag:
awsgetdnsbyname <region> <name>
To connect to an EC2 instance using the public DNS:
awsconnect <key_file> <public_dns>