Remote access

bucketAV’s Scan Fleet consists of Amazon EC2 instances running on Amazon Linux 2023 or Amazon Linux 2. You have full root access to the EC2 instances.

We do not provide support for EC2 instances you modified after connecting via Session Manager or SSH.

Use one of the following options to connect with an EC2 instance running bucketAV.

AWS Systems Manager Session Manager (#)

Set the SystemsManagerAccess configuration parameter to true and use AWS Systems Manager Session Manager to connect to the instance:

1. Visit the Amazon EC2 Console.
2. Ensure that you are in the correct region.
3. Navigate to Instances.
4. Select the instance and choose Connect.
5. For Connection method, choose Session Manager.
6. Click Connect.

SSH (#)

By default, sshd is running. But you have to allow your IP address/range. To do so:

1. Visit the AWS CloudFormation Console.
2. Ensure that you are in the correct region.
3. Navigate to Stacks.
4. Click on the bucketAV stack (if you followed the docs, the name is bucketav).
5. At the top right, click on Update.
6. In the next step, just click Next.
7. Set the SSHIngressCidrIp configuration parameter to:
   • access from anywhere: 0.0.0.0/0
   • from single IP address x.x.x.x/32 (Get your IP address)
8. Click Next.
9. In the next step, just click Next.
10. At the bottom, check “I acknowledge that AWS CloudFormation might create IAM resources.” and click Update stack.

Now, you can connect to the EC2 instances via SSH.