What Is AWS EC2 Key Pair?
When launching an EC2 instance, you have the option to specify a key pair that will be used to encrypt login information and authenticate connections to the instance. If you do not specify a key pair when launching an instance, you will not be able to access it without additional steps, such as creating a new key pair or using an existing one.
We can create a Key Pair with two methods. They are
- When we are launching an EC2 Instance.
- We can also create a only Key Pair separately.
How To A Create A Key Pairs In AWS-EC2 ? |Complete Tutorial
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.