# Teleport vs. AWS SSM Session Manager

DevFeed: [Teleport vs. AWS SSM Session Manager](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/teleport-vs-aws-ssm-session-manager-29936.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://goteleport.com/blog/teleport-vs-aws-session-manager/>)

Author: ev@goteleport.com (Ev Kontsevoy)

Published: 2021-03-08T00:00:00Z

Content type: comparison

Language: en

Sources: [Teleport](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/teleport.md>)

Topics: [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [AWS IAM](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws-iam.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [Amazon EC2](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-ec2.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [Amazon S3](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-s3.md>), [WebSocket](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/websocket.md>), [OpenID connect (OIDC)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/oidc.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Ansible](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ansible.md>), [Puppet](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/puppet.md>)

Tags: [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [chef](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chef.md>), [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [compare](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compare.md>), [ec2](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ec2.md>), [iam](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/iam.md>), [oidc](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/oidc.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [puppet](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/puppet.md>), [s3](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/s3.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>), [websocket](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/websocket.md>)

## AI overview

The article introduces AWS Systems Manager Session Manager, explains its architecture and session-recording workflow, and compares its capabilities and IAM-based access model with Teleport.

## Source excerpt

AWS Systems Manager provides session management and session recording features. We'll explore these new interactive capabilities and compare them to Teleport