AWS SSM Manager

AWS port forwarding, without the friction.

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AWS port forwarding, without the friction.

3 followers

A cross-platform desktop app for AWS SSM port forwarding. Save connections, organize by environment, detect port conflicts, and launch secure tunnels in one click.

Free

Launch tags:Productivity•Open Source•Developer Tools

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Hey Product Hunt! 👋

I built AWS SSM Manager after one too many sessions tabbing between the AWS console, my terminal history, and a notes file where I'd saved instance IDs — just to connect to a database I use every day.

AWS Session Manager is genuinely great for security — IAM-based, no open ports, no bastion hosts. But the developer experience around it has always felt unfinished. I wanted something I could just open and click.

A few things I focused on:

Clean desktop UX for repeatable, saved connections
Local port conflict detection with clear, actionable errors
Configurable timeout controls with live countdown warnings
Built-in onboarding checks to validate your AWS CLI, plugin, and credentials upfront
Cross-platform distribution — macOS, Windows, and Linux

It's free and open source. No business behind it — just a tool I wanted to exist.

I'd love your feedback on:

What AWS services or workflows you use most
Any rough edges in session setup or daily use
What should be prioritized next after v1

Thanks for checking it out!

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20d ago

Forum Threads

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20d ago

What AWS services do you tunnel into most — and what's missing?

Right now, SSM Manager supports four services out of the box:

OpenSearch
Aurora PostgreSQL
ElastiCache Redis
Amazon MQ

Each one comes with pre-configured remote and local ports, so you don t have to look them up every time.

But I know teams tunnel into a lot more than that: DocumentDB, MSK (Kafka), Elasticsearch, internal HTTP APIs, and custom TCP services on arbitrary ports.

p/aws-ssm-manager

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20d ago

You can use import/export to share a team's connections as a JSON file

One thing that s not obvious from the UI: the export feature produces a plain JSON file with all your saved connections and groups.

That file can be checked into a repo, shared over Slack, or dropped into an onboarding doc, and anyone on the team can import it and have the exact same connection setup in seconds.

The format is intentionally simple:

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Hey Product Hunt! 👋

A few things I focused on:

Clean desktop UX for repeatable, saved connections
Local port conflict detection with clear, actionable errors
Configurable timeout controls with live countdown warnings
Built-in onboarding checks to validate your AWS CLI, plugin, and credentials upfront
Cross-platform distribution — macOS, Windows, and Linux

It's free and open source. No business behind it — just a tool I wanted to exist.

I'd love your feedback on:

What AWS services or workflows you use most
Any rough edges in session setup or daily use
What should be prioritized next after v1

Thanks for checking it out!