ec2

How To

Deploy Kali Linux as an EC2 using SSM without SSH

Deploy pentest.yaml using cloudformation and pass in the needed parameters.

Once the instance is deployed you can start a vnc port forwarding session using ssm:

_instance_port=5901
_instance_id=id-of-the-instance

aws ssm start-session --target "${_instance_id}" \
  --document-name AWS-StartPortForwardingSession \
  --parameters "{\"portNumber\":[\"${_instance_port}\"],\"localPortNumber\":[\"9000\"]}"

Then you can fire up your favorite VNC client using localhost:5901 in this example.