EXP 1 A : Creating a EC2 instance accessible via remote client in AWS

Requirements:

  • EC2-parameters, IP address
  • Puutygen, putty(windows), SSH client-Ubuntu
  • PEM/PPK file
  • EC2 Username&Key
Aim:
    To create a EC2 instance accessible via remote client in AWS.

Procedure:
    First to connect to an Instance, you need PuTTY which is a free SSH client that allows you to do that from our local computer running Windows.

Download and Install PuTTY from their official page.
The open putty.exe from the installation folder.




This will open the PuTTY Configuration Window. 
In that Hostname field type your Hostname or the Public DNS address from the EC2 Management Console. Then set the Port to 22 and connection type to SSH.



Then Select SSH on the left-side and choose the 'Auth' option under it.

Click Browse to locate the .ppk file which we downloaded when we created our key pair and then select it. Click Open to connect to your Instance.

If this is the first time to connect to your instance, PuTTY Security Alert will ask whether to proceed or not. Select Accept to complete the connection process.




EC2 Instance window will appear. Login with your username, now you are connected to your instance.




Transfer files between AWS EC2 Instance and Windows:
    We can move files into and out of our instance from our local machine running Windows by using Windows Secure Copy(WinSCP), provides GUI that allows us to drop files between our local computer and our instance

First Download and Install WinSCP from their official website. Open WinSCP.




When you install it for the first time, it will ask whether to import the session we saved in PuTTY if we saved our session. 

Here I have already created a session "gokul". 
If you want to create a new site, you have to give your hostname, username and load the ppk file. It is the similar process like how we connected our instance.

When you login, it will open a Warning alert then click 'Yes'.








In the above, the left panel contains all the file contents of my local computer and the right panel contains the files of my EC2 Instance.
It is similar to Windows Files Explorer.

We can drag and drop files between our local machine to our EC2 instance.



Here I have added some text files from my local machine to the instance.







As you can see, the files I added in WinSCP are added to my instance. We can display the file contents and make changes too.



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