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How to login to AWS EC2 instance

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This post goes over the key steps to login to your EC2 virtual machines hosted in the AWS (Amazon Web Services).    There are two ways to connect to the remote machine (the EC2 virtual machine) which is hosted on the Amazon cloud      (1) either connect via a standalone SSH client or use a Java SSH client directly from your browser.   (2) or use putty client (putty is SSH client, provided by https://www.putty.org , that can downloaded from  https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html   Scroll down to the Binary files and pick your appropriate version. For 64-bit x86 version the download is here   https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/w64/putty.exe If you want to connect with your browser then only IE and Firefox are supported. See note below regarding Chrome browser. Since Chrome browser does not support plugins using NPAPI, you cannot use the in-browser Java SSH client (NPAPI deprecation on Chrome). You need to use Internet Explorer or Firefox b