It was created in 1995 and is now installed by default on almost every Linux distribution. The most common tool to connect to Linux servers is Secure Shell (SSH).

While infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Chef and Puppet have become customary in the industry for configuring servers, you occasionally must access your instances to fine-tune, consult system logs, or debug application issues.

Today, AWS is introducing Amazon EC2 Instance Connect, a new way to control SSH access to your EC2 instances using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). Once this is done press ok and try to connect again.This post is courtesy of Saloni Sonpal – Senior Product Manager – Amazon EC2 Say yes and tell it where to put the new. At this point FileZilla will ask if you want to convert it to a format it can use. Assuming you already downloaded it to you PC, open FileZilla and select the Edit->Settings menu.Ĭlick the 'Add key file.' button and locate your PEM file. PEM file that was created when you built the Amazon instance. To get round it you need to tell FileZilla about the. The error is 'No supported authentication methods available'. If at this point you try to connect using SFTP from FileZilla you'll probably see this:

SFTP uses the same port so we can carry on and set it up. If that times out then most likely port 22 isn't open.

You can test this from a Terminal using the following command: ssh Address-Of-EC2-Instance If, like me, your FTP tool of choice is FileZilla then this tip might save you some of the time it took me to work it out.įirst of all make sure port 22 is open in your instance's Security Group in Amazon's AWS site. SFTP Access To Amazon EC2 Using FileZilla Wed Īs soon as you've setup a Linux instance on Amazon EC2 you're likely next step is to get FTP access so you can move files about.

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