Continued from Signing up to Amazon EC2 and starting your first image
Preparing PuTTY
Note: These instructions are based on the Windows version of PuTTY and PuTTYgen
- Download an install PuTTY and PuTTYgen from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ (if there is an “install all” install for your platform, use that)
- Load PuTTYgen
- Click Load (“Load an existing private key file”)
- Select “Show all files (*.*)” in the “Load” box instead of the “PuTTY Private Key Files (*.ppk)”
- Select your Amazon EC2 Key (such as AmazonInstance.pem)
- Click Load
- You should receive the “Succesfully imported foreign key” message
- Click “Save private key” (select Yes to “Are you sure you want to save this key without a passphrase to protect it?”)
- Save the file somewhere save
Continued in Connecting to Amazon EC2 using PuTTY