Tunnels: Your VPC, One Toggle Away SimpleSSM 1.2 introduces Tunnels — secure port forwarding to anything inside your VPC, with no VPN, no bastion host, and no CLI setup. A few weeks ago I needed to run some queries against an RDS database that lives in a private subnet. No VPN set up, no bastion, […]

SimpleSSM v1.1 was just released. This version introduces Send Command, making it possible to run a single command across multiple instances at once. What used to take repetitive logins and manual execution can now be done in one step, with results returned per instance so you can quickly spot any issues. It is built on […]

iPhone & iPad version coming very soon After months of planning, building, and internal testing, the mobile version of SimpleSSM is nearly ready for launch. We’re currently working on some last-minute fixes and preparing our product page. Development and testing should be complete by the end of April, which leaves the App Store submission. App […]

Running the same command across EC2 instances shouldn’t be manual work. The next release of SimpleSSM introduces Send Command – a feature that lets you broadcast any shell command across multiple instances simultaneously, right from your Mac. If you’ve ever needed to pull logs, restart a service, or run a quick health check across a fleet, you […]

We’re excited to announce that SimpleSSM now supports AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) via AWS Identity Center, making it even easier to securely connect to your EC2 instances using Session Manager — without managing long-lived access keys. For organizations that rely on centralized identity and short-lived credentials, this is a major improvement. You can now authenticate with […]