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ssm-guiconnect¶
Description¶
Systems Manager GUI Connect, a component of Fleet Manager, lets you connect to your Window Server-type Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances using the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). GUI Connect, which is powered by Amazon DCV , provides you with secure connectivity to your Windows Server instances directly from the Systems Manager console. You can have up to four simultaneous connections in a single browser window. In the console, GUI Connect is also referred to as Fleet Manager Remote Desktop.
This reference is intended to be used with the ` Amazon Web Services Systems Manager User Guide https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/`__ . To get started, see the following user guide topics: