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Upload SSH public key to AWS SecretManager
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To create a ssh key:

ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/keyName_rsa -t rsa -b 4096

Then, upload it to AWS Secret Manager to be used as Terraform key_name when creating instances for example:

aws secretsmanager create-secret --name "Path/To/KeyName" --description "Added Manually" --secret-string "$(cat ~/.ssh/keyName_rsa.pub)"
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