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Amazon EC2 Cookbook
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Amazon EC2 Cookbook

by Sekhar Reddy
November 2015
Intermediate to advanced
194 pages
4h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating an EC2 key pair

AWS can authenticate using the public-private key mechanism. The recommended authentication mechanism is public-private key authentication instead of passwords to remotely log in to your instances with SSH. We upload the public key to AWS, and store the private key on our local machine. If anyone has your private key, then they can easily log in to your EC2 instances. It's a best practice to store these private keys in a secure place. We can create the public and private key from our machine using tools like PuTTY Key Generator.

You should include a passphrase with the private key to prevent unauthorized persons from logging in to your EC2 instance. When you include a passphrase, you have to enter the passphrase whenever ...

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