How to SSH into AWS EC2 Instances

Here's how to quickly SSH into your Amazon AWS EC2 instance, step-by-step.

For this tutorial, you will use Putty to configure the SSH connection to your AWS EC2 instance. If you haven't yet downloaded Putty, you can download it here.

If you are unsure of what username to use to connect to your AWS instance, here are some examples:

• For an Amazon Linux AMI, the user name is ec2-user.
• For a RHEL AMI, the user name is ec2-user or root.
• For an Ubuntu AMI, the user name is ubuntu or root.
• For a Centos AMI, the user name is centos.
• For a Fedora AMI, the user name is ec2-user.
• For SUSE, the user name is ec2-user or root.

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[mattcarey]

This was so helpful!!! I spent hours trying to figure out how to do this, until I found this video. Thanks!

[pabloalcortapy]

Excellent tutorials thanks to you I have learned to set up my website in aws ec2. Greetings from Paraguay!

[JenniferVerdin]

THANK YOU!! gosh these videos are golden!

[afissordic]

I love this! It is short and informative. Please keep them coming. Can you do one on how to Setup EC2 Instance with Apache, PHP, MySQL

[nayankumarbn]

thankyou i was searching for this for 4hours finaly found it, thankyou

[yaakoubiaa]

very helpfull video. Thanks for sharing

[indiejim]

Thank you! I’ve been trying to connect to my Ubuntu instance for an hour and a half haha

[kapilkhullar]

Thank you - that was very clear - covered everything logically. [Surprisingly - People often fail to explain the simplest of concepts/procedures clearly. ] If possible please show the same procedure for the Linux terminal also (with the builtin ssh client).

[deogratiasadade]

thanks for this video, it help me a lot.

[m.hassannasir]

A big thumbs up mate. Thanks for the help.

[powerhousemethod]

Nice video, I was looking for a linux one

[vrmaverix]

Could someone please let me know the alternative for putty SSH if you are using a Mac?
I'm not able to edit the file where code needs to be added.

[msvmanikantasrivishnu]

Hello, I am new to this tutorials, i installed aws ec2 with wordpress bitnami and created a key, and linked it with file zilla and i want wpconfig file but i am not getting that

[kaiserroan]

Kinda of lost. did you install the entire Putty package to get the key generator?

[channingfadeum]

Where can I locate the server configuration file?

[sujeethkumar]

Hii all can any one guide me, after generate a key using (ssh-keygen) i need to connect to server 2 using the key of server 1.

[sw]

I never created a SSH file when I created my AWS account or at least I don't recall of hearing this when doing so. Please instruct on how to do this as I have no clued what you are talking about. I am trying to complete the steps at time 0:47 loading the SSH key.

[dxb_coder]

I have a problem whenever I do that I get a connection timed out !

[niravpatel]

I was created EBS application. Inside app automatically created EC2 instance. so how do i connect that ec2 instance.? How to get .pem file this type of ec2 instace .?

[dannyaustin]

this didn't work for me. Putty says " No supported authentication methods available (server sent: publickey) I assume that means that I did something wrong