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SSH access from Windows

Unfortunately, the best SSH client for Windows also requires its own format. So the Windows steps will have two parts: A.) Generating the key, and B.) Using the key

Generate the key

1.) Go to the Putty webpage

Open up your browser and go to: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html

2.) Download PuTTY

Right-click and Save As the links for the latest installer. As of time of writing, it's putty-0.67-installer.msi

3.) Run the installer

Execute the MSI file, and go through the installation. It should install a couple of programs, but we only need two: PuTTY and PuTTYGen

4.) Start PuTTYGen

From the Start menu, choose All Programs > PuTTY > PuTTYGen.

Under Type of key to generate, select SSH-2 RSA.

5.) Load your Key Pair

Click on Load. By default, PuTTYgen displays only files with the extension .ppk. To locate your .pem file, select the option to display All Files.

Go to the directory where you downloaded your Key Pair, open the file, and click on Open.

6.) Save your private key

Choose Save private key to save the key in the format that PuTTY can use. PuTTYgen displays a warning about saving the key without a passphrase. Choose Yes.

7.) Name your key

Specify the same name for the key that you used for the key pair (for example, banana-smith-keypair)

Logging in

1.) Start PuTTY

From the Start menu, choose All Programs > PuTTY > PuTTY

2.) Set your login

In the Category pane, select Session and complete the following fields:

 Host: ec2-user@[PUBLIC IP]
 Port: 22
 Connection type: SSH

Make sure you replace [PUBLIC IP] with the Public IP of your EC2 instance. For example:

 Host: [email protected]
 Port: 22
 Connection type: SSH

3.) Select your key file

In the Category pane, expand Connection, expand SSH, and then select Auth.

Click on Browse. Select the .ppk file that you generated for your key pair, and then choose Open.

4.) Save your session

In the Category pane, select Session. Enter a name for the session under Saved Sessions.

Choose Save.

5.) Login!

Finally, that's all done. Click on Open to start the SSH session - it will display a security alert that you can safely ignore (at least for this session).