Setting up a Bastion host on AWS

Thu, 18 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

When setting up my latest development environment at AWS, I wanted to deploy all EC2 services on a private VPC and simply route all traffic to them through a Bastion host (aka jump host). AWS maintains a an excellent CloudFormation quickstart guide & template here and it’s what I used to get started. After completing that guide I put a new entry for the Bastion host in my ssh config like so:

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Setting up a Bastion host on AWS