How to transfer files to Amazon EC2 instance from my Windows 7 computer? [closed]

Answer 1

Windows remote desktop allows you to make certain drive on your local computer available on to the cloude instance.

Answer 2

Simplest way.

1. Launch putty. Linux users can simply launch the terminal.
2. scp -i /path/to/PEM_File /path/to/file username@host_address.amazonaws.com:/path/to/copy

If you're looking for something UI based, I'd go with Filezilla.

Answer 3

The simplest way is to install an FTP service on your EC2 host, open port 21 in the firewall and Security Group, and use your FTP client of choice on Win7 to push the data up.

For bonus points, use SFTP instead over port 22. You don't mention the EC2 host OS, but if it's Windows you can use msftpsvr on the host and FileZilla on Win7.

Answer 4

You can also install Dropbox on your EC2 instance and selectively sync files (assuming you use Dropbox). It's a pretty painless way to set things up, though you do add some overhead to your EC2 instance because you're always running Dropbox.

Answer 5

If your remote EC2 instance is a remote desktop you can simply transfer files first by connecting with it via an elastic IP and then using simple copy and paste to transfer files between your local computer and remote desktop.

Answer 6

The best way to do is through WinScp you can also use some similar software, for winscp use the pem that you got and convert it into ppk file and utilize the same to login to winscp.

But if you have a linux instance you have the access to add files in only two folders either in home/ubuntu or temp.