- Provisioned two EC2 instances – Amazon Linux AMI and Windows Server 2019 AMI
- Created new key pair for both instances named. Lab Server.pem
- Connected to the Linux instance via EC2 Instance Connect in the Management Console
- Attempted to connect through SSH via my desktop terminal. Kept running into this error:
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- Connected to the Windows Server instance via Microsoft RDP client that I installed on my desktop
- Was able to locate and actually use the Lab Server.pem file and decrypt the password
- Successfully RDPed into the EC2 Windows Server instance from the RDP client on my desktop