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

First change permission of pem file by

chmod 400 path/to/key_pair.pem

Inside the file ~/.ssh/config add the following lines, at the top of the file

Host AWS
     Hostname myserver.com
     User myuser
     IdentityFile path/to/.pem/file
     port 22

Hostname take IP or link of server, User take username of server and Identity file is file downloaded from AWS when you created instance. Just Run the following command in terminal

ssh AWS

and enjoy it!

Note: To navigate into .ssh folder. First press Ctrl + H in home folder to display all the hidden files and finally cd .ssh