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Adam
Adam

Reputation: 1295

AWS EC2 SSH Keys

I have a question to ask about AWS EC2. I created an EC2 instance before with a ppk file and associated my EC2 instance with that PPK file on Putty.

Thereafter, I created a separate EC2 instance with additional storage and I tried to associate my ppk file with this instance too.

However, When I ssh onto Putty, it gives me this error

Using username "ec2-storage".
Server refused our key

Is it because once a EC2 instance is using a keypair I cant use it for another EC2 instance? However, if this is the case why does the AWS console give us the option to choose an existing key pair?

Any advice?

Adrian

Upvotes: 0

Views: 160

Answers (1)

John Rotenstein
John Rotenstein

Reputation: 270224

If you are launching an Amazon EC2 instance based on the Amazon Linux AMI, the username is ec2-user.

Upvotes: 3

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