Using the terminal on MAC/Linux

• The terminal is already installed by default. You just need to open it up.
• You do not need to convert to a .ppk file. Just use the same key as downloaded from AWS.
• Change directory into the loacation where your PEM file is. Most likely will be in the Downloads folder

cd ~/Downloads

IMPORTANT – Anywhere you see these anchor tags < > , going forward, it means you will need to replace the content in there with values specific to your situation. For example, if we need you to replace the name you have saved the private key on your machine, we will write something like < private-key-name >.

If the private key you downloaded was named my-private-key.pem simply remove the anchor tags and insert my-private-key.pem in the command you are required to execute. Lets try this and follow the instructions below to get some work done.

• Change premissions for the private key file (.pem), otherwise you can get an error "Bad permissions"

sudo chmod 0400 <private-key-name>.pem

• Connect to the instance by running

ssh -i <private-key-name>.pem ubuntu@<Public-IP-address>

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