Step-by-Step Guide on Creating a Key Pair Using Amazon EC2
Step 1: Creating EC2 Instance
- Navigate to AWS Login Console and log in with your credentials.
- After Login to your account, you will be navigated to AWS Console Home.
- Click on the EC2 Instance.
Step 2: Navigate To Key Pair Section
- Click on Drop down menu of Network & Security section.
- Click Key pair option in that drop down menu.
Step 3: Create A Key Pair
- Click on the Create Key Pair Button or creating the key pair.
Step 4: Define Key Pair (.ppk Format )
- provide the a Key Pair name that you are creating now.
- Select the key pair type as RSA.
- Select The Private Key File format as .ppk
- Selecting the Tags are optional.
Step 6: Review And Create Key Pair
- Review The Defined Key Pair after confirmation of it then click on the Key Pair Button.
Step 6: Downloading The Key Pair
- Once the key pair is created, it will be downloaded to your system.
- In Download Section you will see the file is in the Downloading process or downloaded file.
Step 7: Verifying Created Key Pair
- Naviagate to Key Pair Section, there you will see the created Key pair as confirmation.
- Finally with this step we successful created a Key Pair.
- Now you can use the key pair when you will launch any EC2 Instance or Accessing any Instance.
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In Amazon Web Services, an EC2 key pair consists of a public key and a private key that is used to securely communicate with EC2 instances. The public key is stored on the EC2 instance and is used to encrypt messages that can only be decrypted by the corresponding private key, which is kept by the user who generated the key pair. The private key is used to decrypt messages that have been encrypted with the public key.