There are several ways to connect to a Linux instance. One of the commonly used method is to connect Linux instance from Windows local machine using PuTTY.
Following are the steps to connect to a Linux instance:
- Install PuTTY on your local machine.
- Get your instance ID.
- Get the public DNS name of the instance.
- Locate the private key.
- Enable inbound SSH traffic from your IP address to your instance.
- Converting Your Private Key Using PuTTYgen.
- Starting a PuTTY Session.
- Now you are connected to your EC2 instance