Comment by gobdovan

I'd call it unnecessary exposure. Under both modern threat models and classic cybernetic models (check out law of requisite variety) removing as much surface attack area as possible is optimal. Especially disabling passwords in SSH is infosec 1o1 these days. No need to worry about brute force attacks, credential stuffing, or simple human error, which was the cause of all attacks I've seen directly.

It's easier to add a small config to Terraform to make your config at least key-based.