Puttygen aws key
SSH to Amazon EC2 instance using Putty in windows
I am a newbie to Amazon web services, was trying launch an Amazon instance and ssh to it using putty from windows. These are the steps I followed,
- Created a key pair.
- Created security group with rule for SSH and HTTP.
- Launched and instance of EC2 using the above key pair and security group.
- Using puttygen converted the *.pem file to *.ppk
- Using putty tried connecting to the public dns of the instance and provided the *.ppk file.
I logged in using 'root' and 'ec2-user', and created the ppk file using SSH1 and SSH2, for all these attempts I get the following error in putty,
