SEC‐440 Milestone 4 AWS Prep - DefiantCoder/Tech-Journals GitHub Wiki
- First we will navigate to our instance and start the lab, this will take a few minutes and once the AWS light turns green we are ready to proceed. We will then make sure that
- Once you get a green light click on AWS and you should be navigated to a screen that looks like the following:
- Next we will select EC2 and then key pairs from the left menu and create a key pair (Make sure you are in the right region THIS MATTERS
*To save the private key in a format that can be used with OpenSSH, choose pem. To save the private key in a format that can be used with PuTTY, choose ppk.D
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Once you create the key it will automatically download and you should save that key as YOU ONLY GET ONE.
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If you will use an SSH client on a macOS or Linux computer to connect to your Linux instance, use the following command to set the permissions of your private key file so that only you can read it.
chmod 400 my-key-pair.pem
Submission: Screenshot of your console showing a key pair was created
- Next we will create a security group
Submission: Screenshot showing security group created
- Now we will launch an instance
Submit Screenshot: Showing instance running in EC2 Console
Submit: Screenshot showing successful connection
Submit Screenshot showing successful web connection to your AWS server from a system on SEC-440-LAN
- Getting your windows password