
How to use the same SSH key pair in all AWS regions
How to use the same SSH key pair in all AWS regions
We begin by running AWS configure and add our access and secret keys:
$ aws configure
Verify the AWS CLI installed correctly:
$ aws –version
Configuring the SSH key pair
If you don’t have an SSH key pair or want to follow this article using a new one:
$ openssl genrsa -out ~/.ssh/aws.pem 2048ssh-keygen -y -f ~/.ssh/aws.pem > ~/.ssh/aws.pub
If you already have an SSH private key created using the AWS Console, extract the public key from it:
$ ssh-keygen -y -f ~/.ssh/aws.pem > ~/.ssh/aws.pub
Importing the SSH key pair
Now that you have the public key, declare the variable AWS_REGION containing a list with the regions to which you want to copy your SSH key. To check the full list of available AWS regions use this link.
$ AWS_REGION=”us-east-1 us-east-2 us-west-1 us-west-2 ap-south-1 eu-central-1 eu-west-1 eu-west-2″
If you don’t want to specify each region manually, you can use the ec2 describe-regions command to get a list of all available regions:
$ AWS_REGION=$(aws ec2 describe-regions –output text | awk ‘{print $3}’ | xargs)
Next, import the SSH public key to these regions, substituting your key’s name for <MyKey>:
$ for each in ${AWS_REGION} ; do aws ec2 import-key-pair –key-name mykeypair –public-key-material file://~/.ssh/aws.pub –region $each ; done
Also, if you want to display which SSH key is available in a region:
$ aws ec2 describe-key-pairs –region REGION
To delete an SSH key from a region:
$ aws ec2 delete-key-pair –key-name <MyKey> –region REGION
Source of information:
https://fedoramagazine.org/ssh-key-aws-regions/
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