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If you're willing to entrench yourself deeper into the AWS ecosystem you can go completely keyless and manage access solely through IAM by inventorying your instances in AWS Systems Manager - then you can start SSH sessions right from the AWS CLI itself[1].

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide...

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This still requires an SSH key.

From the link:

To start a session using SSH, run the following command:

ssh -i /path/my-key-pair.pem username@instance-id

No, the aws start-session command does not require a keypair - you're reading further down in the instructions about other ways to connect.

Indeed, thanks for the correction.

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