Platform engineering is the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era.

Platform Engineering

<https://aws.amazon.com/step-functions/>

might be worth to be explored to orchestrate the workflow

Switch to SSM, never deal with that stuff again?

Not sure what is being proposed by SSM?

Installing the agent using SSM on EC2 instance creation or running the update using some complex mix of various orchestrated SSM `run-scripts` ?

So late to answering this, but I will - SSM agent comes pre-installed on most flavors of amazon linux, or you can install easily in the user data. it will keep itself up to date. once you have that, you can connect with that, and never use teleport. Instant connection in the console with a web UI, or via SSH. Also allows easy port forwarding setups.