Above image consist of login error of putty and ssh connections.
So I dont know the process of getting connected to my EC2 instances
Question: How to connect to our instances using private_key.ppm and putty.
First of all Download private keys from your aws console so that you can use those keys to looged in to user EC2 instances.
like below
key selection
Fisrt of all decide which public key you wanted to use wheather it is ppm or ppk
Select platform
Then select platform you gonna use in my case i m using Windows. and connectivity software is putty..
Copy required data in the sense your Amazon public DNS .
Copy it from your EC2 instance dashboard.
putty configuration
open up putty ,put ec2-user#public_address Drag your ssh from categories again click on Auth and browse your public key you was just downloaded .
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I create ec2-instance on the AWS server:
Now I try to connect to the server with putty.
First of all, I downloaded the PPK for instance:
In the next I created a connection with putty:
After I launch connection and set the username as ec2-user:
in the result I got the error:
How to correctly connect to the ec2 instance with PPK?
What I understand from the question is that you did launch an EC2 instance successfully and afterwards you generated a new SSH key pair which does not have any connection to the already created EC2 instance.
What you should have done is to create a new key when the instance was launched:
OR select an existing key:
Now, the easiest way to solve this problem is to terminate the EC2 instance and recreate it with your existing key pair. You should be able to chose wlifter-ppk from the dropdown.
If, for some reason, you don't want to do this or it is not possible to terminate and relaunch the instance, there are several ways to rescue the instance and attach an existing SSH key.
I. Manually rescue the instance:
From Putty convert you .ppk to RSA public key.
Use EC2 Instance Connect or Session Manager to connect to your instance.
Locate the .ssh/authorized_keys file. For Amazon Linux instances this can be found in /home/ec2-user/.ssh folder.
Open authorized_keys, append the new RSA public key and save the file.
Connect to the instance using Putty.
II. Use EC2Rescue tool https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/ec2-instance-boot-issues/
I assume you have local Windows and you'd like to connect to your EC2 AWS linux VM.
Use PuTTYgen to generate SSH-2 RSA key, 2048 bits.
Save keys into file, ie. myaws1.pub and myaws1.
In AWS dashboard, find your live instance, open up shell. It'll open up in the browser.
You will be logged in most likely as ec2-user
vi .ssh/authorized_keys
On your Windows, open up myaws1.pub file. take the relevant part and make it one line. Yes, it's broken up into multiple lines. Now press CTRL-C. And over in the browser where you Linux shell, press ESC-I (for insert), now CTRL-V (paste). Save and exit vi.
Back to Amazon Dashboard, in Network Security -> Security Groups, create SSH inbound rule with source 0.0.0.0/0
Now, when connecting to your instance from Putty use "Auth" in options.
This is what your new line in auth file should look like. I shortened it
ssh-rsa AAAAB3......... aws1
I got problem. I did opened server from the AWS EC2 AMAZON. Its gived me .pem file. With putty key generator i did changed it to .ppk file. I want to connect my server without .ppk or .pem or any like that file. How can i remove this security check point? Thanks.
Best Regards.
You need to authenticate using the private ssh key when you connect to an EC2 instance. If you don't want to do that, then there are two choices
Recommended : To use new AWS web console ssh connection to your EC2 instance
This is quite a new feature introduced by AWS to ssh into you EC2 instance from the web browser. In your EC2 view, select the instance and click on the Connect button
Not recommended Using password based authentication for a new user.
I wouldn't be providing details on this one as it is not secured to use password based authentication and your should ideally be using the ssh keys based auth.
I am attempting to create and connect to an Amazon EC2 instance via FidOS. I am following the procedure demonstrated in:
How to Create Amazon AWS EC2 Instance
I logged onto the AWS Console and created a general purpose Ubuntu Server Machine image.
I configured the instance details, added storage, added tags, and configured the Security Group just as in the video.
I clicked "Review and Launch" and created and downloaded the PEM key.
I generated the PPK private key using PuttyGen.
I configured my session using the public DNS in the Host Name field and uploading the private PPK key in the Authorization tab.
After I clicked Open, a terminal window appeared, but then timed out.
I am working on a Windows machine, and trying to create a Ubuntu Linux virtual machine.
Am I missing any steps or doing anything wrong? I would appreciate any help I can get.
The problem was the corporate firewall. It worked just fine when I tried it from another location.
I am setting up a node.js server on AWS EC2 using putty configurations.There I found to configure putty.I stuck filling the hostname of EC2 in putty.What will be the hostname can anyone Help?
screenshot of putty config :
Note: I have an EC2 instance launched which I have connect with this.
You can give the public ip of your ec2 instance there. which you can find in the aws management console. Attached is the screen-shot for the same.
Let me know if you are not able to connect with this method.
After generating the key .ppk go to SSH-->Auth-->Browse the .ppk key,
save it and load then open.
Log in with ec2-user.
If you want to give a try, we developed an alternative CLI for AWS that makes this much easier: awless.
It should work on Windows too and with awless, you don't need to set either your IP address nor username, just awless ssh i-1234 or awless ssh my-instance-name.
Note that you may also need to add: -i path/to/your/key.pem if the key was not created with awless.
I am using mac terminal and I want to connect my machine with server instance EC2 in aws with SSH. Since I am using Mac OS X is not necessary to use PUTTY. The problem is that when I download the key it is with extension .ppk but when i need to run it on terminal i need to use a command in which i have to use .pem extension . I tried to run it in that way and it said to me permission denied. Can someone help me what to do in this case? Do i have to change the permission or to convert my key from .ppk to .ppm?
You need to know the .pem file folder you download, and then follow steps below:
download the keypair(.pem file)
cd to keypair(.pem file) location (Note that you can use absolute path name for key pair instead)
chmod 400 [your_key_name].pem (Note that to make SSH work, your key must not be publicly viewable. Use this command if needed.)
ssh -i "[your_key_name].pem" ec2-user#[your ec2 dns name]
You will have to convert your "ppk" file to "pem" file follow this steps.
http://www.ramsmusings.com/2014/02/20/converting-a-putty-ppk-file-to-a-pem-file-for-accessing-aws-ec2-instances/
After you convert connect to the instance using the SSH command and converted "pem" file.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AccessingInstancesLinux.html
Quick answer
Instead of working directly with SSH keys I would consider working with AWS ec2-instance-connect.
It saves you the the management of the SSH keys and is much safer then sharing SSH keys for each EC2 machine between team members.
After authentication with the aws credentials (by referring to a profile in .aws/config file or using environment variables ) you can connect to the instance very easily by providing the instance ID:
./bin/mssh <instance-ID>
Installation of this tool can be done via pip or directly from the github repo.
Additional information
Amazon EC2 Instance Connect provides a simple and secure way to connect to your instances using Secure Shell (SSH).
With EC2 Instance Connect, you use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies and principles to control SSH access to your instances, removing the need to share and manage SSH keys.
When you connect to an instance using EC2 Instance Connect, the Instance Connect API pushes a one-time-use SSH public key to the instance metadata where it remains for 60 seconds. An IAM policy attached to your IAM user authorizes your IAM user to push the public key to the instance metadata.
The SSH daemon uses AuthorizedKeysCommand and AuthorizedKeysCommandUser, which are configured when Instance Connect is installed, to look up the public key from the instance metadata for authentication, and connects you to the instance.
You can use Instance Connect to connect to your Linux instances using a
browser-based client,
the Amazon EC2 Instance Connect CLI,
or the SSH client of your choice.
(*) Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20190618 or later and Ubuntu 20.04 or later comes preconfigured with EC2 Instance Connect.
For other supported Linux distributions, you must set up Instance Connect for every instance that will support using Instance Connect. This is a one-time requirement for each instance.
Links:
Connect using EC2 Instance Connect
Securing your bastion hosts with Amazon EC2 Instance Connect