Hopefully if you're joining the infrastructure team you know how to ssh into a remote server already and you can skip this section entirely. If not, that's okay! When I started my first step in onboarding was googling "what does ssh mean." This page is intended to help those of you who lack an infrastructure background to speed up the onboarding process and begin interfacing with our servers in no time.
So what does SSH mean?
SSH stands for secure shell and is a protocol by which remote network administrators can interact with the shell of a server remotely. Basically the SSH protocol allows you to interact with the command lines of our AWS / BioHPC Servers through the command line on your local machine.
How to SSH into AWS?
To interface with our AWS servers, where our backends and dashboard frontends are running, you can start by heading to Cornell's AWS portal at https://signin.aws.cucloud.net/