How to use PuTTY to connect to your Amazon EC2 instance?
PuTTY is an SSH and Telnet client, which was developed for the Windows platform by Simon Tatham. Here, in this blog, I will be providing detailed guidance in order to use PuTTY for connecting to the Amazon EC2 instance.
What are the prerequisition before you use PuTTY to connect to your Amazon EC2 instance?
So, before you view this blog, you should have already created your EC2 instance. Also, you should have downloaded ‘putty’ and ‘puttygen’ in your PC. It can be beneficial to obtain knowledge about PuTTY before you dive into the blog.
Hence, for downloading ‘putty’ and ‘puttygen’, and to obtain knowledge about PuTTY you can take reference to my previous blog which has been provided below.
Stepwise procedure to connect to Amazon EC2 instance using PuTTY
Step 1: Go to the file location in your PC where you have downloaded the key pair of the Amazon EC2 instance in which you are willing to connect.
The private key file of your EC2 instance allows you to connect to your EC2 instance securely.
