Access Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Remotely via SSH

Go to EC2 Dashboard then navigate to Intances

Select the instance then click Connect button

A window pops up will show up with a few info about how to connect to an instance

NOTE: The key-pair example-key.pem is generated when you first time launch an instance

Command to apply chmod 400 to key-pair

chmod 400 /path/to/example-key.pem

Command to connect to instance via SSH

ssh -i "/path/to/example-key.pem" user@public-dns-example.com

In this example, I use terminal ubuntu desktop to connect to EC2 instance

Successfully connect to instance

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