Just to get into my development environment, I have to:

1. Log in to OKTA and choose my specific account (we have 2 accounts for some reason, and only one of them is used for development) 2. Log into AWS with that account 3. Select another sub-account in AWS 4. Navigate to my developer EC2 5. Start the instance 6. In VS Code, open a terminal and log in with “aws login —profile myName” 7. Wait for redirect to AWS in the browser window 8. Click ok and close the tab 9. Back in VS Code, open remote explorer and click on a preset that does an ssh tunnel to my workspace on the EC2 10. Wait for VS Code to spawn a new window 11. Now I can go through all of my other development setup tasks (another 6-10 steps depending on what I need to do)

Every day. And our instances force auto-shutdown at 9pm, so if you need to work late, better save your work, log off preemptively, and go through the same process.