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About time. This is the other thing that GCP does so well and I was puzzled that AWS still couldnt do - just add more than one keys to a EC2 instance through the API (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-inst...).

There are tons of support questions about "how can I add multiple SSH keys to my EC2 instances".

Now if only AWS brings in "projects". That's the last usability edge that GCP has.

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I really miss projects and folders (current firm is AWS, previous was GCP). I find GCP more usable on a number of other fronts though.

Whenever there's a service that maps to the other, I just always seem to find the GCP service easier/faster to learn and use effectively. Bigquery, stackdriver, pubsub, dataproc, compute, load balancer, et al. Getting stuff done with those is miles easier, in my experience than the comparable AWS offerings, at least if you don't already have extensive experience with one over the other.

Note the GCP equivalent requires some permanently running crapware inside your VM, the OpenSSH hook EC2 are using is much simpler

GCP open sourced the code here - https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-package...

is the AWS code opensource ?

It is.

Client: https://github.com/aws/aws-ec2-instance-connect-cli

Server: https://github.com/aws/aws-ec2-instance-connect-config

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