Connect to your Windows instance using Fleet Manager - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Connect to your Windows instance using Fleet Manager

You can use Fleet Manager, a capability of Amazon Systems Manager, to connect to Windows instances using the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and display up to four Windows instances on the same page in the Amazon Web Services Management Console. You can connect to the first instance in the Fleet Manager Remote Desktop directly from the Instances page in the Amazon EC2 console. For more information about Fleet Manager, see Connect to a managed node using Remote Desktop in the Amazon Systems Manager User Guide.

Before attempting to connect to an instance using Fleet Manager, ensure that the necessary setup steps have been completed. For more information, see Setting up Fleet Manager.

Note

You do not need to specifically allow incoming RDP traffic from your IP address if you use Fleet Manager to connect. Fleet Manager handles that for you.

To connect to instances using RDP with Fleet Manager (console)

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/ec2/.

  2. From the navigation pane, choose Instances.

  3. Select the instance and then choose Connect.

  4. On the Connect to instance page, choose the option to Connect using Fleet Manager, then choose Fleet Manager Remote Desktop. This opens the Fleet Manager Remote Desktop page in the Amazon Systems Manager console.

    The connect to instance page in the EC2 console with the Connect using Fleet Manager option selected and the Fleet Manager Remote Desktop button.

For more information about connecting to Windows instances from the Fleet Manager Remote Desktop page, see Connect using Remote Desktop in the Amazon Systems Manager User Guide.