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Connect to EC2 instance:

EC2 Console

https://aws.amazon.com/console/ > Sign Into Console > All Services > Compute: EC2

Get your Access and Secret Access Keys

https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home?#home > Users > [your user] > Security Credentials > Create access key

Get your instance region

Go to EC2 Console, then:

Instances > Instances > Availability Zone

us-east-2b -> us-east-2 (drop the final letter)

Configure:

╭─fenton@archlinux ~/.aws  ‹master*› 
╰─➤  aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [None]: AKIAIFQXCHOQS5URLIOA
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: 4/+NTasdfasdfsdafawer3q2w4rfasdf03
Default region name [None]: us-east-2
Default output format [None]: json
╭─fenton@archlinux ~/.aws  ‹master*› 
╰─➤  cat config                   
[default]
region = us-east-2
output = json
╭─fenton@archlinux ~/.aws  ‹master*› 
╰─➤  cat credentials              
[default]
aws_access_key_id = AKIAIFQXCHOQS5URLIOA
aws_secret_access_key = 4/+NTasdfasdfsdafawer3q2w4rfasdf03

Get Public DNS Hostname

$ aws ec2 describe-instances | jq '.Reservations | .[0].Instances | .[0].PublicDnsName'

Generate SSH key

Go to EC2 Console, then:

Network & Security > Key Pairs > Create Key Pair

Save to somewhere with 400 permissions,

╭─fenton@archlinux ~/.aws  ‹master*› 
╰─➤  ls -al /home/fenton/.ssh/for-amazon.pem                                                             
-r-------- 1 fenton fenton 1.7K Oct 25 14:51 /home/fenton/.ssh/for-amazon.pem

then use that in your ssh call

SSH in

$ ssh -i /home/fenton/.ssh/for-amazon.pem [email protected]