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User-Data script for AWS, to change the default SSHD port from 22 to 2222, or 443, the same port HTTPS uses.
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aws user-data to change default ssh port
#!/bin/bash -ex
perl -pi -e 's/^#?Port 22$/Port 2222/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
service sshd restart || service ssh restart
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jalex19100 commented Aug 16, 2021 •
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Don't know if you still need this today. AWS offers port forwarding and some other stuff, with EC2 instances, for free now. I haven't used this method of locking down SSH in a very long time.

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santosh commented Aug 17, 2021

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Not sure how much that relates to my situation here, but I wanted to change the SSH port which I initially use to connect to the EC2 instance.

Otherwise when I see the sshd logs, I see many people/bots lurking in. Just too many attempts to get in.

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