As a developer working with AWS, I often found myself jumping between multiple EC2 instances. Connecting to them securely and efficiently was repetitive, and it usually meant bouncing between the AWS CLI and the Session Manager Plugin. Those tools are powerful, but I wanted something simpler and faster for day-to-day use. That is why I built AWS SSH, a CLI tool with a small TUI that streamlines the process of connecting to EC2 instances. Why I built AWS SSH The AWS CLI and Session Manager Plugin already solve the core problem, but the workflow can still feel clumsy if you switch between instances often. The main friction points for me were: Manually searching for instance IDs and typing long commands. Having no intuitive interface for picking the target instance. Needing extra steps whenever I wanted to switch regions. I wanted a tool that reduced that overhead and made the flow interactive instead of procedural. How AWS SSH works AWS SSH is a wrapper around the AWS CLI and Session Manager Plugin.…