Friday, August 9, 2013

Use PuTTY with AWS EC2 Instance

Steps

  1. Start a new instance and save the corresponding private key file (.pem file)
  2. Use PuTTYGen to convert .pem file to .ppk file
    1. Load the .pem file
    2. Save private key as .ppk file
  3. Connect using PuTTY
    1. Use the right EC2 hostname
    2. Update Connection > SSH > Auth > Private Key File to point to the newly created .ppk file
    3. Save the connection

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