EC2 Instance ConnectΒΆ
You can use an alternative to ssh for connecting to your ec2 instances - the EC2 Instance Connect.
In the EC2 Instances view you can select an instance and click on the connect button.
Then the first tab should be the EC2 Instance Connect.
This is going to open up a terminal to the EC2 instance:
Note that this still relies on SSH. If you have disabled the SSH inbound rules in your security groups - you will get a timeout.