5.4 Use Putty for Your EC2 Instance

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in this video,

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we will use putting toe log in tow are easy to instance

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and use Patijn to convert our pen file to a PPK file.

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In our last video, we launched our very first E c. Two instance.

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We also interacted with our instance from the command line of my Lennox box.

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In this video, I will show the Windows users how to interact with the easy to instance via putty

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for those who may not be familiar, but he is a free terminal emulator that runs on Windows.

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It's very lightweight and easy to install

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if you recall from our last lesson.

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Our private key that AWS generated for us is stored as a dot pen file.

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But he doesn't understand pen files, but instead uses a P p K file, which stands for Putty Private Key.

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So we will actually need to convert our pen file to the PPK format.

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But it comes with a tool called Putty Jin that performs his conversion for us.

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So let's get started by opening up a Web browser.

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Let's type putty in the search bar.

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Then let's select the link that begins with Chae Arc

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Select, a package based on. If your computer is 32 bit or 64 bit,

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I will select 64

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Then download the package

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next navigate to where you downloaded the package,

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then run the installer.

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You can accept all of the defaults with this install,

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so just click next

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and then stall

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and then click Finish.

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It's a good idea to copy the putty, gin and putty. Execute a bles to your desktop or taskbar as you use them often.

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Next, I will navigate to my easy to instance from our last lesson

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and turn it back on

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to turn it on. Just right. Click

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and then click. Start,

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then click. Yes, start

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next

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open putty gin on your desktop

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Quick load to navigate where you stored the old pen file.

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Putty Jin will be looking for a dot PPK file,

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but of course there won't be any since we haven't created one yet,

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so we will need to change the filter and Explorer to all files.

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Then we'll be able to see our pen file.

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So let's highlight our pin file and click open

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Putty. Jen

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informs us that our import was successful

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quick. Okay,

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now we will need to rename our private key

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and save it as a dot PPK file.

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Then click open,

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then click Save Private Key.

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Next open putty

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for the host name. We will type

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E C two desks user at

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and then we will paste in the I P address of our instance.

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Since we just turned the EEC to instance back on, it will have a new I p address.

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I have already copied the new one,

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so I'll just paste it in.

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Then let's copy this host name so that we don't have to keep typing it in all time

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and then paste it under save sessions.

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Next scroll down to off under SS H.

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This is where we will tell Putty to use our private key.

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Great

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Next click Save

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Select our easy to session,

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then click open.

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And now we get that message from our instance about our private key not being cashed.

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This is normal. So just click Yes,

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and we have just authenticated to R E. C. Two instance

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over party

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are easy to instance, says that there are some security updates available, so let's install those Now

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we have to make ourselves route

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Then run the command Yum update dash y

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and then enter.

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And that, my friends, is all there is to it.

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Excellent job, everyone.

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In this video,

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we download it and use putty to log into our easy to residence.

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And

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we also used Putty Jin to convert our pen file