tetris11

You can always connect to yourself from the Windows machine and tunnel SSH over that, but it’s likely you’ll hit a firewall or possibly even a TLS MitM box.

I don't want to undermine their security. I could do a reverse proxy of course, I was just wondering if AWS itself had a solution here

Yeah the browser seems to be what I'm resigned to. In terms of security, there isn't really much stopping me from spawning an reverse SSH proxy to a public server from within the desktop, and then connecting to that....

If I wanted to wreac havok, my user would still need to be in the right access groups to do anything. I feel that cutting out the middleman and letting me connect directly to the bastion would be easier for everyone...

oh yeah! Wild ending

Will they actually see it though is the question, or will they greedily accept the new set of lies as the world burns around them.

The way I reason it, the Windows Desktop that AWS spawns in done on a Linux-based VM in the cloud. AWS then creates a VPN to the workplace to make it seem like it shares the same subnet as the compute nodes. I think that's how this works.

If so, I'm wondering if I can just SSH either into that VM without spawning the desktop and access the VPN that way, or if AWS itself offers some kind of service that extends the VPN directly to me.

I should stress that I'm not asking for creative solutions, I'm only wondering if this is a common use-case that easily catered for and I just need to RTFM better

I have, but the IT dept either willfully misinterprets my request, or does not actually know. No judgement from my side, as I am also uncertain.

My plan is to find a solution that complies with their security standards (i.e. through AWS's authentication spec), but allows me a VPN/SSH style passthrough.

I forgot how it ended, refresh my mind real quick?

eh?

(sheer insanity has just been described in detail)

BBC Presenter (nods thoughtfully, shifts some papers)
"Alright, thanks. That was Charles Manson there, live from Narnia."

BBC Presenter (split-second later, brightly)
"And now an endangered frog species sees a new life on Mars! Our nature correspondent Jethro Tull with the latest.."

my computer lives inside my keyboard, next to the keyboard's computer

Sure, now imagine all those things in Germany:

• The train comes every 30 minutes, but oh whoops there's a 30 minute delay that's keeping the other trains behind delayed. So rather than getting home on time for dinner, you eat shit from a vending machine. Oh and we need to prioritize passengers going between the main cities, so the provincial trains will need to wait. Oh, and tomorrow there's a strike. Oh and the fare costs 10€ if you travel more than 5km.
• The bus comes regularly but it meanders between small villages nowhere near your final destination, so takes 30 minutes longer than it should.

Just to be clear, I'm not against trains and I am definitely against cars. But I do think E-bikes are the way forward for any journey less than 100km

Depends where they go though. I'm guessing people on both sides mostly visit a select few cities in WE or US, and don't really get a feel for the sprawl of the country in general.

The US is mindbogglingly large, whereas finding remote spots in WE is more of a challenge.