I wanted to use the same SSH keys for multiple AWS regions. As it turns out, AWS simply stores the public key when you download the private key as a .pem file. The solution is to simply generate the public key locally from the existing .pem, then import the public key using the same name […]
Use the ssh-keygen command on a computer to which you’ve downloaded your private key .pem file; for example: First, ensure permissions will allow ssh-keygen to work: chmod 600 /path/to/the/file/your-key-pair.pem Then generate an RSA public key: ssh-keygen -y -f /path/to/the/file/your-key-pair.pem > your-key-pair.pub
erics@zeus:/Users/erics # ssh -i foo.pem ec2-user@thehost.foo Last login: Tue Nov 19 20:28:19 2013 from foo.bar __| __|_ ) _| ( / Amazon Linux AMI ___|\___|___| https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/2013.09-release-notes/ No packages needed for security; 7 packages available Run “sudo yum update” to apply all updates. [ec2-user@xyz ~]$ sudo su […]
erics, August 4th, 2021 
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