aws-ssm-connect

README

aws-ssm-connect

⚡ A powerful CLI to port-forward into private RDS, Aurora, and ElastiCache (Redis, Memcached) endpoints through EC2 instances using AWS SSM Session Manager — fully interactive, no SSH required.

Features

• ☁️ Interactive profile / EC2 / database selection (SSO-aware)
• 🚀 Quick connect via --profile and --filter
• 🔐 SSM-based secure access (no open ports or bastion hosts)
• 🔄 Port-forward RDS, Aurora, Redis, Memcached — all in one tool
• 🧵 Background port-forwarding (non-blocking, persistent)
• 🔢 Tracks active sessions by PID
• 📋 List active tunnels with --list
• ❌ Kill specific tunnels with --kill <pid>
• 💥 Kill all tunnels with --kill-all
• 🧹 Automatically cleans up dead sessions
• ⚠️ Prevents local port conflicts

Installation

brew tap ilkerispir/tap
brew install aws-ssm-connect