EC2 Lab - nrubera/SYS-265-03-Tech-Journal GitHub Wiki

Creating an SSH key pair on the EC2 GUI is very easy and straight forward. Once you create it during the instance creation you need to download it and point the SSH connection to the file in order to connect.

If the SSH connection attempt is not pointed to the key file OR the key file is not secure, the connection will error out and not work.

Creating firewall inbound rules is also fairly straight forward, you just add a new rule and select what type of connection it is or what port you want to open up.

Overall the AWS platform is very intuitive and easy to use and understand. The integrated tools also make it very easy to configure and fine tune the instances that you create.