Your data & settings

SSM Dojo keeps everything on your machine. There's no account, no database, and no cloud sync — your settings, saved connections, and history live in local files, and your AWS credentials are read from your existing AWS configuration.

Where your data lives

SSM Dojo stores its files in your operating system's standard app-data location:

OS	Folder
macOS	~/Library/Application Support/ssm-manager/
Linux	~/.config/ssm-manager/
Windows	%APPDATA%\ssm-manager\

Inside that folder you'll find:

What	Contents
Settings	Your preferences (theme, accent, default profile/region, log level, download folder).
Connections	Your saved tunnels and SSH connections.
Transfer history	A log of recent uploads, downloads, and deletes.
Saved RDP passwords	Encrypted with your OS credential store (never stored in plain text).
Known hosts	Pinned SSH host keys for trust-on-first-use.

To reset SSM Dojo to a clean state, quit the app and remove that folder. To back up your connections, copy it.

Settings

You can change these on the Settings screen (see Settings & theming):

• Theme — system, light, or dark.
• Accent — violet or teal.
• Default profile / region — pre-selected on launch so you don't re-pick them.
• Log level — how verbose the app's logs are.
• Download folder — default destination for file downloads.

AWS credentials

SSM Dojo does not store your AWS credentials. It reads your named profiles from the standard ~/.aws/config and ~/.aws/credentials files (including SSO and assume-role) and uses them directly. If a profile's credentials are expired or need an SSO login, SSM Dojo tells you.

Secrets

• Saved RDP passwords (optional) are encrypted using your OS credential store. The plain text is never written to disk.
• SSH key passphrases and sudo passwords are kept in memory only while a connection is active, and are cleared when the connection stops or the app restarts — they're never saved.

See Security & privacy for the full picture.