To find this Public DNS URL, do the following: To SSH into your EC2 instance, you’ll need to grab its the EC2 Public DNS URL. “ec2-user” (Amazon Linux, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux).You’ll find these type of treasures hidden in Q&A threads, but not in any easy to understand guide in AWS documentation. Depending on the type of EC2 instance you have setup, below are the default / primary usernames: I wish someone told me this when I first started playing with AWS. So here we go with some basics: Primary Usernames for EC2 Instances: So be awesome and just try to do it yourself! You’ll have a newfound appreciation for what hosting providers do and that pesky cPanel you’ve grown to love and hate.įor example, you may have to change file or folder permissions, restart a service like Apache, or modify something that would typically cost time and money if you enlist a contractor. Wait, why the heck would a beginner ever SSH into a server?īelieve it or not, now that you’re on AWS, all those server administration tasks that were taken for granted are going to haunt you at every corner. So let’s discuss how to access your new server via SSH. I know how frustrating it is to just get beginner level help in an environment where everyone seems to be a server ops expert. This is a post for all those beginners just starting off with AWS.
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