Session Manager Plugin

Session Manager Plugin 1.2.896.0

This plugin helps you to use the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) to start and end sessions to your managed instances.

  • By Amazon Web Services
  • Open Source
  • Updated Oct 10, 2026
Download for Windows

About Session Manager Plugin

Session Manager is a fully managed AWS Systems Manager capability that lets you manage your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, on-premises instances and virtual machines. Session Manager provides secure and auditable instance management without the need to open inbound ports. When you use the Session Manager plugin with the AWS CLI to start a session, the plugin builds the WebSocket connection to your managed instances.

What's new in 1.2.896.0

  • Revert "Session failure reason check and avoid hanging session"

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Technical details

PublisherAmazon Web Services
AuthorAmazon Web Services, Inc
Version1.2.896.0
Release date2026-10-10
LicenseApache-2.0
Installer typeburn
Architecturex86
Package IDAmazon.SessionManagerPlugin

Links & install command

Install Session Manager Plugin from the command line with Windows Package Manager (winget):

winget install --id=Amazon.SessionManagerPlugin -e

awsaws-cli

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