Connecting to AL2023 instances
Use SSH or Amazon Systems Manager to connect to your AL2023 instance.
Connect to your instance using SSH
For instructions on how to use SSH to connect to an instance, see Connect to your Linux instance using SSH in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances.
Connect to your instance using Amazon Systems Manager
For instructions on how to use Amazon Systems Manager to connect to an AL2023 instance, see Connect to your Linux instance using Session Manager in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances.
Using Amazon EC2 Instance Connect
The AL2023 AMI, excluding the minimal AMI, comes with the EC2 Instance Connect
agent installed by default. To use EC2 Instance Connect with an AL2023 instance
launched from the minimal AMI, you must install the ec2-instance-connect
package. For instructions on using EC2 Instance Connect, see
Connect to your Linux instance with EC2 Instance Connect in the
Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances.