EC2 Instance Connect Tutorial

Learn how to connect to your EC2 Instances using EC2 Instance Connect!
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I'm Stephane Maarek, a consultant and software developer, and I have a particular interest in everything related to Big Data, Cloud, and API. I sat on the 2019 Program Committee organizing the Kafka Summit. I'm also an AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Developer, SysOps Administrator, and DevOps Engineer.

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[gentlecraftsman]

Thank you finally I figured out that I need to allow SSH even for instance access. I was trying to figure out why it wasn't working for about 2 hours.

[mohamdshoaibmomin]

Thanks for sharing this, as a beginner it was frustrating to understand why I was not able to connect untill I came across ur video

[uaman]

the edit inbound rules is what i was looking for!!! thanks

[lightningxiv-ebrv]

very helpful! Thank you so much Stephane!

[Dholi]

Thanks you so much! AWS docs sometimes aren't helpful.

[damienspectre]

Hello Stephaane - could you create a video explaining the pros & cons of between connecting to Instances using:
Bastion Host vs EC2 Instance Connect vs SSM Run Command vs SSM Session Manager?
I've not found a good youtube resource and this would be pretty good to know for SAP-C02

[SamAndrew]

What if we don't want to allow ALL - what other IPs do we whitelist for SSH other than just our own public IP?

[vishnuanilkumar]

Can I use root user instead of ec2-user

[vincent_hall]

Creating an inbound rule with SSH.
Still didn't work for me.
Following my Udemy course with Paul Coady: video and the more up-to-date lab notes, connecting with EC2 Instance Connect also didn't work.
Mystery.

[sriyasaswinibokka]

Will both the EC2 instance connect and SSH client connects work at a time?

[raremoments]

Error establishing SSH connection failed to connect EC2 instance


Hope you are doing well. I would like to talk to you regarding an issue i am experiencing from a while ago. Aforementioned in the subject of this email. I am unable to connect to my EC2 instance ( using browser connect ). I have allowed SSH port 22 inbound traffic in my security group. Also checked my VPC & subnets ( route table is allowed in internet-gateway ( igw ) ) configurations. But still unable to connect to my instance we have lost our key pair which means we are unable to connect through command line SSH. Could you please teach me how do we get out of it. I am looking for your response.

[manavalanmichael]

Hi,
which software you used to make this video?

[lonewolfgamingyt]

still its says connection timed out please help

[bearcountrypublishing]

This seems to start in the middle. I can't find any links to the start.

[toannguyen-ghtg]

how did you do it can you share with me, thank you

[jaladjhamb]

Can You please help me with course related to AWS CDK with Python

[ArunRaj-fmft]

Failed to connect to your instance
Access denied by EC2 Instance Connect. Either your AWS credentials are not valid or you do not have access to the EC2 instance.
got this error, what can i do?

[orensharon]

what's the command on the terminal to connect the server?

[mikhailkalashnikv]

I am unable to connect to any linux instances I create, mainly ubuntu, debian and kali. Issue happens when I create a new priv/pub key pair as well as when I use existing ones.

Ssh is open and when I try to ssh in, it says pub key fails. Any idea why this occurs?

Ssh is open to world and I have the key but it wont let me in.