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A startup company hosts a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets using the latest Amazon Linux 2 AMI. The company's engineers rely heavily on SSH access to the instances for troubleshooting.
The company's existing architecture includes the following:
✑ A VPC with private and public subnets, and a NAT gateway
✑ Site-to-Site VPN for connectivity with the on-premises environment
✑ EC2 security groups with direct SSH access from the on-premises environment
The company needs to increase security controls around SSH access and provide auditing of commands run by the engineers.
Which strategy should a solutions architect use?

A. Install and configure EC2 Instance Connect on the fleet of EC2 instances. Remove all security group rules attached to EC2 instances that allow inbound TCP on port 22. Advise the engineers to remotely access the instances by using the EC2 Instance Connect CLI.
B. Update the EC2 security groups to only allow inbound TCP on port 22 to the IP addresses of the engineer's devices. Install the Amazon CloudWatch agent on all EC2 instances and send operating system audit logs to CloudWatch Logs.
C. Update the EC2 security groups to only allow inbound TCP on port 22 to the IP addresses of the engineer's devices. Enable AWS Config for EC2 security group resource changes. Enable AWS Firewall Manager and apply a security group policy that automatically remediates changes to rules.
D. Create an IAM role with the AmazonSSMManagedInstanceCore managed policy attached. Attach the IAM role to all the EC2 instances. Remove all security group rules attached to the EC2 instances that allow inbound TCP on port 22. Have the engineers install the AWS Systems Manager Session Manager plugin for their devices and remotely access the instances by using the start-session API call from Systems Manager.

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳️

by shailurtm2001 at April 22, 2022, 7:06 a.m.

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2 years, 4 months ago

Selected Answer: A

Its surely A, EC2 insatnce connect (via browser based console or via CLI) incldues logging in Cloudtrial :https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/new-using-amazon-ec2-instance-connect-for-ssh-access-to-your-ec2-instances/

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2 years, 4 months ago

actually re-read the question, they remove the port 22 inbound so this would not work.. Session manager is the only option here. Chaning to D

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evargasbrz

2 years, 6 months ago

Selected Answer: D

D is the best option. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/session-manager-working-with-install-plugin.html

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breathingcloud

2 years, 7 months ago

Definitely D, we can rely on security group rules to whitelist because engineer count may increase is unknow and not practically possible to restrict with SG when we have more engineers

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mrgreatness

2 years, 7 months ago

100% its D.

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SureNot

2 years, 7 months ago

Selected Answer: B

Whats wrong with B? The simpliest solution

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alxjandroleiva

2 years, 8 months ago

Selected Answer: B

B is correct, D is do something that has not been asked of you and that may have more implications in other company processes

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sb333

2 years, 9 months ago

Selected Answer: D

Allows client machines to be able to connect to Session Manager using the AWS CLI instead of going through the AWS EC2 or AWS Server Manager console. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/session-manager-working-with-install-plugin.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/session-manager-working-with-install-plugin.html#:~:text=aws%20ssm%20start%2Dsession%20%2D%2Dtarget%20instance%2Did

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asfsdfsdf

2 years, 11 months ago

Selected Answer: D

D - audit is being done on SSM level no need for keys or SGs use SSM plugin or AWS CLI to allow connection. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/session-manager-working-with-install-plugin.html

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bobsmith2000

3 years, 1 month ago

Selected Answer: D

D for sure

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shailurtm2001

3 years, 2 months ago

Answer is D

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user0001

3 years, 1 month ago

B is right , if you dont have something to back up your option dont answer it .there is nothing session manager you can install , it is already available on every server , and the question asking to use ssh not session manager

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Ddssssss

3 years ago

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/session-manager-working-with-install-plugin.html

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bobsmith2000

3 years, 1 month ago

B is the ancient bull shit. Never do this now.b Use Session Manager instead of bastions https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/session-manager-working-with-install-plugin.html

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