AWS - Connect to EC2 Instance Over SSH

In the previous blog post I showed you how to create an EC2 instance

https://eyeteahero.blogspot.com/2020/05/aws-creating-ec2-instance.html

In this blog I will show you how to connect to that instance over SSH. Although I'm using MacOS the steps should be similar across platforms.

Select the EC2 instance you want to connect to then click Connect

Copy the chmod command in the window then open a terminal, change directory to the directory you saved the .pem file in the previous blog post and paste the command

Copy the SSH command shown here

Paste the SSH command into the terminal and run it. Then type yes and hit enter

To update the instance type sudo yum update and hit enter

Type y and hit enter to finish the update

In the next blog post I will show you how to terminate an EC2 instance. This is especially important if the instance is no longer in use and you want to avoid unnecessary charges:

https://eyeteahero.blogspot.com/2020/05/aws-terminate-ec2-instance.html