SSH to EC2 Instance from Mac OS

This blog shows how to connect to AWS Linux or Ubuntu from Mac OS

• First, make sure you have the EC2 Instance and have the following 2 things.
• have the private key pair available in the Mac OS. (I.E. should be something looks like *.pem)
• note the AWS EC2 instance public IP address
• At mac open your terminal window and go to the location has *.pem file
• type command as following
• chmod 400 {yourem.pem}
• Should be looks like this
• chmod 400 my-test.pem
• Following is for connecting to Linux
• ssh ec2-user@{EC2 Public IP address} -i {YourPem.pem}
• Should be looks like this
• ssh ec2-user@123.123.123.123 -i my-test.pem
• Following is for connecting to Ubuntu
• ssh ubuntu@{EC2 Public IP address} -i {YourPem.pem}
• ssh ubuntu@123.123.123.123 -i my-test.pem
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