Connect securely to Amazon EC2 using PuTTY, Pageant
20.05.12
Last time, I created a virtual machine using the Amazon Web Service (AWS) console. Amazon people call this "launching an instance". The only way of talking to my new EC2 machine is by following the SSH (Secure SHell) protocol.
My new machine is running an SSH service. I must use an SSH client to connect to it. There is no other way in. It is not running any Web interface or fancy GUI, and it won't talk any older protocol like telnet, ftp or, God forbid, rlogin.
I need an SSH client that will run on my Microsoft operating system (OS). Most people in the world typing away at computers are running a Microsoft OS--probably Windows 7 or XP. I use it at work. If Linux dominated the world , I could use OpenSSH but business desktop reality still has Microsoft at its heart.
Simon Tatham's PuTTY is my favourite Windows SSH client. AWS people use PuTTY. It is free, does everything I need , and is stable. In the past, I used a few other open source clients with Windows, like OpenSSH and TeraTerm, and some closed source ones, such as MindTerm, SecureCRT, and Tectia SSH. Is it my imagination, or is mixing caps important when naming an SSH application?
Source: ZDNet Asia