Week 9: Fish Shell Functions for Managing AWS EC2 Instances -- Save Time and Billing

Prerequisites: This post assumes you have a working AWS lab with IAM Identity Center and SSM Session Manager configured. If you have not done that yet, start here first: 👉 Secure AWS Lab Setup for Security Engineers: IAM Identity Center + SSM + Zero Open Ports If you find this useful, I'd really appreciate a ⭐ on my open source secure coding exercise repo — it helps a lot: 🌟 Star the SecEng-Exercises Repo on GitHub Also — why do you read security engineering blog posts? One click helps me write better content: 👉 Take the poll (takes 10 seconds) Introduction Running a personal AWS security lab involves the same set of CLI operations over and over: launch an instance, connect to it, do some work, save your progress, and shut it down to avoid unnecessary billing. Without automation, each of these steps requires remembering long aws ec2 commands with multiple flags. This post provides a complete set of fish shell functions that reduce all of that to single commands. They are designed speci