To access EC2 from Windows, we can either use a Windows version of the SSH tool we covered in the preceding section or we can use PuTTY. PuTTY is a very popular SSH and telnet client that can run on Windows or Unix. To download PuTTY, we need to visit https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/PuTTY/latest.html. Once we download PuTTY, install and run it, the main screen will look similar to this:
Before we can use PuTTY to connect to our EC2 instance, we will need to convert the private key file that we obtained earlier into a different file type that can be easily consumed by the PuTTY software.
To perform the ...
