Connecting to Amazon EC2 Instances

This section describes how to connect to instances that you launched and how to transfer files between your local computer and your Amazon EC2 instance. To connect to an instance, you will need a running instance and the private key file that corresponds to the key pair that was selected when the instance was launched. For information about launching instances, see Launching EC2 Instances. For information about key pairs, see Getting a Key Pair.

The following topics demonstrate how to connect to your instance: