No, it's able to use your local ssh_config. For example, I use this to connect to a host running on aws via ssm. The vm isn't reachable at all directly. You ca

No, it's able to use your local ssh_config. For example, I use this to connect to a host running on aws via ssm. The vm isn't reachable at all directly. You can use something like the following in your ~/.ssh/config: Host devhost ProxyCommand aws --profile DevProfile ssm start-session --target i-0123456789abcdef0 --document-name AWS-StartSSHSession --parameters "portNumber=22" You then tell intellij to connect to "devhost". This also works under recent versions of Windows (those which ship with openssh).