How to resolve the error AWS EC2 permission denied?

860 Asked by SonamSingh in AWS , Asked on Feb 23, 2021

Attempt the following command:

ssh -i ~/.ssh/[keypair name] ec2-user@[ec2 instance ip]

This ought to get you in. Make sure to utilize the login client name as per the OS in your occasion.

For Ubuntu-based machines use: ubuntu

For Debian: admin

For Centos: centos

For Amazon Linux: ec2-user

For the remainder of the machine types, use ec2-user , as aws permission denied publickey

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