# Tutorial: Set up an Identity-Aware Access Proxy as a Bastion Host in AWS

DevFeed: [Tutorial: Set up an Identity-Aware Access Proxy as a Bastion Host in AWS](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/tutorial-set-up-an-identity-aware-access-proxy-as-a-bastion-host-in-aws-29693.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://goteleport.com/blog/how-to-setup-aws-bastion/>)

Author: info@goteleport.com (Janakiram MSV)

Published: 2022-03-10T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

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

Topics: [Tutorial](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tutorial.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [Zero Trust](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/zero-trust.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Amazon EC2](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-ec2.md>), [VPC](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vpc.md>), [Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-elastic-kubernetes-service.md>), [Amazon RDS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-rds.md>), [DevOps](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/devops.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

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## AI overview

This tutorial explains how to use Teleport, an open-source identity-aware access proxy, as a bastion host for securing AWS infrastructure. It focuses on replacing a traditional bastion host with a Teleport proxy and authentication server for SSH access to EC2 instances, while also describing access to services such as RDS and EKS.

## Source excerpt

This post explains how to set-up AWS bastion host based on Teleport identity-aware access proxy.