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Perhaps neither here nor there, but an often overlooked feature of boto (the official python AWS client) is that you can create an SSH client to an instance:

http://boto.cloudhackers.com/en/latest/ref/manage.html#boto....

given that you have an EC2 `Instance` object, which can be hydrated in a variety of ways.

Edit: Wow, a lot of you have built or found ssh-to-ec2 clients.

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Thanks for the link - I wasn't aware of that feature in boto. I think I still would have chosen to shell out to ssh as it gives me more control over SSH options (key forwarding etc.), although I see that boto is using paramiko under the hood so perhaps it would still be possible to get key forwarding and other features.

Being able to go from an EC2 Instance object directly to an SSH session in pure Python will definitely come in handy in future.

> Edit: Wow, a lot of you have built or found ssh-to-ec2 clients.

Indeed, it seems to be a popular itch to scratch. At some point AWS will probably integrate something like this in awscli, thus rendering all of these 'ssh to ec2' scripts pointless :-)

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