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This is super useful if you are in the game of building images, or highly tweeking init systems and/or the kernel.

For general consumers, not much value IMHO.

I see a ton of value when you have instances on a private network with no shell access and want to debug them without setting up a bastion instance.

Yep, this might very well enable whole deployments where there is no SSH access anywhere.

I manage the AWS infrastructure for a medium sized SaaS company and we have no SSH access to any of our ~20 servers. The only access is through AWS Systems Manager Session Manager. Not managing keys is major upside.

AWS's (poorly named) SSM Session Manager service already allows that.

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

It requires an agent.

Yep, I'm here for the init system debugging too.

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