Make aws ssm start-session indicate if session-manager-plugin is not installed #9973
Description
Describe the feature
Simply pint a warning when executing aws ssm start-session ... and ssm-session-manager is not installed
Use Case
I embarrassingly lost several hours today debugging while trying to figure why I could not connect to my instances via SSM on a freshly-installed system, despite backing up and restoring my .aws directory (and all others), only to realize that it was just because I forgot to install the session-manager-plugin
This headache (and future ones for others) could be avoided if the command aws ssm start-session ... Would just print a warning if the session-manager-plugin is not installed. is desperately trying to figure out why all attempts to connect to an instance
Proposed Solution
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Other Information
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Acknowledgements
- I may be able to implement this feature request
- This feature might incur a breaking change
CLI version used
aws-cli/2.32.9
Environment details (OS name and version, etc.)
Python/3.13.9 Linux/5.15.167.4-microsoft-standard-WSL2 exe/x86_64.ubuntu.24