How to do VSCode remote connection to EC2 via EC2 Instance Connect (EIC)?

Question

Hey, EIC looks like a pretty nice feature to SSH in private net EC2s https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/secure-connectivity-from-public-to-private-introducing-ec2-instance-connect-endpoint-june-13-2023/

So that triggers the question: how to use EIC via the VSCode Remote Development extension to connect to an EC2?

Riku_Kobayashi · Answer

Hello.

If you use VSCode's [RemoteSSH](https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-remote-release) extension, try setting ssh_config as follows.  
"ssh.pem" is the SSH key set to ec2-user.  
With this setting, you will be able to connect to EC2 configured with ProxyCommand and manipulate files.

```
Host instance1
    HostName i-0eyyyyyyyyyyy
    User ec2-user
    IdentityFile .\Desktop	mp\ssh.pem
    ProxyCommand aws ec2-instance-connect open-tunnel --instance-id i-0eyyyyyyyyyyy
```

How to do VSCode remote connection to EC2 via EC2 Instance Connect (EIC)?

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