AWS Lambda function that performs an ssh command through a bastion server to another server. The function will be triggered by a Cloudwatch Alarm

worker_function.py

import json
import boto3
import paramiko


def worker_handler(event, context):

    ALLOWED_HOSTS = [
        'host1',
        'host2,
    ]

    ec2 = boto3.resource('ec2')
    message = json.loads(event['Records'][0]['Sns']['Message'])
    instance_id = [d['value'] for d in message['Trigger']['Dimensions'] if d['name'] == 'InstanceId'][0]
    hostname = [t['Value'] for t in ec2.Instance(instance_id).tags if t['Key'] == 'Name'][0]
    hostname = hostname.lower().replace('.', '-').strip()

    if hostname not in ALLOWED_HOSTS:
        print "{} not in ALLOWED_HOSTS. Exiting...".format(hostname)
        return {
            'message': "Script execution completed. See Cloudwatch logs for complete output"
        }

    s3_client = boto3.client('s3')
    # Download private key file from secure S3 bucket
    s3_client.download_file('bucketname', 'certs/key.pem', '/tmp/key.pem')

    k = paramiko.RSAKey.from_private_key_file("/tmp/key.pem")
    c = paramiko.SSHClient()
    c.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())

    host = "ec2-user@{}.servers.yourserver.com".format(hostname)
    bastion_host = "youradmin.yourserver.com"
    print "Connecting to " + bastion_host
    c.connect(hostname=bastion_host, username="ec2-user", pkey=k)
    print "Connected to " + bastion_host

    commands = [
        "sudo ssh {} sudo service supervisord restart".format(host)
    ]
    for command in commands:
        print "Executing {}".format(command)
        stdin, stdout, stderr = c.exec_command(command)
        print stdout.read()
        print stderr.read()

    return {
        'message': "Script execution completed. See Cloudwatch logs for complete output"
    }

Unable to import module 'lambda_function': No module named 'paramiko'

@nimesh7424 I expect you'll have to include paramiko in your deployment package

this can be used to ssh to non-aws provisioned servers as well?