Nick Hardiman shows you how to set up a secure connection to an Amazon EC2 machine using PuTTY and Pageant to handle your private key.

At this point, the AWS console will display the Connect to Instance screen. As you can see in the figure, there are three tabs -- EC2 Instance Connect, Session Manager, and SSH Client.

C7gn instances featuring new AWS Nitro Cards with enhanced networking offer the highest network bandwidth and packet rate performance across Amazon EC2 network-optimized instances ...