SSH in EC2

SSH Summary Table

Which Lectures to watch

• Mac / Linux:

• SSH on Mac/Linux lecture

• Windows:

• Putty Lecture

• If Windows 10: SSH on Windows 10 lecture

• All:

• EC2 Instance Connect lecture

SSH troubleshooting

• Students have the most problems with SSH

• If things don’t work...

  1. Re-watch the lecture.You may have missed something

  2. Read the troubleshooting guide

  3. Try EC2 Instance Connect

• If one method works (SSH, Putty, or EC2 Instance Connect) you’re good

• If no method works, that’s okay, the course won’t use SSH much

How to SSH into your EC2 Instance

Linux / Mac OS X

• We’ll learn how to SSH into your EC2 instance using Linux / Mac

• SSH is one of the most important function. It allows you to control a remote machine, all using the command line.

• We will see how we can configure OpenSSH ~/.ssh/config to facilitate the SSH into our EC2 instances

Windows

• We’ll learn how to SSH into your EC2 instance using Windows

• SSH is one of the most important function. It allows you to control a remote machine, all using the command line.

• We will configure all the required parameters necessary for doing SSH on Windows using the free tool Putty.