How do I set up SSH access for an Amazon EC2 instance?

Question

I need SSH access to an Amazon EC2 instance running Ubuntu 10.4. All I have is the Amazon username and password. Any ideas?

Answer 1

1) First chmod the .pem file for restricting the file permissons as below

chmod 400 my-key-pair.pem

2)Then ssh with the following commands directly from .ssh folder

ssh -i my-key-pair.pem ec2-user@ec2-198-99-90-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com

Note:- To navigate into .ssh folder. First press Ctrl + H to display all the hidden files and finallycd .ssh