update description

Author: Hweinstock

packages/core/package.nls.json

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
     "AWS.configuration.description.suppressPrompts": "Prompts which ask for confirmation. Checking an item suppresses the prompt.",
     "AWS.configuration.enableCodeLenses": "Enable SAM hints in source code and template.yaml files",
     "AWS.configuration.description.resources.enabledResources": "AWS resources to display in the 'Resources' portion of the explorer.",
-    "AWS.configuration.description.experiments": "Try experimental features and give feedback. Note that experimental features may be removed at any time.\n * `jsonResourceModification` - Enables basic create, update, and delete support for cloud resources via the JSON Resources explorer component.\n * `samSyncCode` - Adds an additional code-only option when synchronizing SAM applications. Code-only synchronizations are faster but can cause drift in the CloudFormation stack. Does nothing when using the legacy SAM deploy feature.\n * `iamPolicyChecks` - Enables IAM Policy Checks feature, allowing users to validate IAM policies against IAM policy grammar, AWS best practices, and specified security standards.",
+    "AWS.configuration.description.experiments": "Try experimental features and give feedback. Note that experimental features may be removed at any time.\n * `jsonResourceModification` - Enables basic create, update, and delete support for cloud resources via the JSON Resources explorer component.\n * `ec2RemoteConnect` - Allows interfacing with EC2 instances with options to start, stop, and establish remote connections. Remote connections are done over SSM and can be done through a terminal or a remote VSCode window",
     "AWS.stepFunctions.asl.format.enable.desc": "Enables the default formatter used with Amazon States Language files",
     "AWS.stepFunctions.asl.maxItemsComputed.desc": "The maximum number of outline symbols and folding regions computed (limited for performance reasons).",
     "AWS.configuration.description.awssam.debug.api": "API Gateway configuration",

packages/core/src/awsexplorer/regionNode.ts

@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ import { DefaultSchemaClient } from '../shared/clients/schemaClient'
 import { getEcsRootNode } from '../awsService/ecs/model'
 import { compareTreeItems, TreeShim } from '../shared/treeview/utils'
 import { Ec2ParentNode } from '../awsService/ec2/explorer/ec2ParentNode'
-import { DevSettings } from '../shared/settings'
 import { Ec2Client } from '../shared/clients/ec2Client'
 import { isCloud9 } from '../shared/extensionUtilities'
+import { Experiments } from '../shared/settings'
 
 interface ServiceNode {
     allRegions?: boolean
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ interface ServiceNode {
      * when: () => DevSettings.instance.isDevMode()
      * ```
      */
-    when?: () => boolean
+    when?: () => boolean | Promise<boolean>
     createFn: (regionCode: string, partitionId: string) => any
 }
 
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ const serviceCandidates: ServiceNode[] = [
     },
     {
         serviceId: 'ec2',
-        when: () => DevSettings.instance.isDevMode(),
+        when: async () => await Experiments.instance.isExperimentEnabled('ec2RemoteConnect'),
         createFn: (regionCode: string, partitionId: string) =>
             new Ec2ParentNode(regionCode, partitionId, new Ec2Client(regionCode)),
     },
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ export class RegionNode extends AWSTreeNodeBase {
         const partitionId = this.regionProvider.getPartitionId(this.regionCode) ?? defaultPartition
         const childNodes: AWSTreeNodeBase[] = []
         for (const service of serviceCandidates) {
-            if (service.when !== undefined && !service.when()) {
+            if (service.when !== undefined && !(await service.when())) {
                 continue
             }
             if (service.allRegions || this.regionProvider.isServiceInRegion(service.serviceId, this.regionCode)) {