If the key pair is named ec2.key.pem, the following command changes its permissions appropriately. $ chmod 400 ec2.key.pem The next screen allows you to define a security group.

PuTTY needs my AWS private key when it connects to my EC2 machine. Pageant is a time saver: I can log into my machine many times during the day without typing my passphrase.

In addition, while everyone loves Ubuntu, many AWS clients are using Linux without support. Of the 364,000 Ubuntu instances currently in use, only 190,000-plus are from Canonical.

AWS plans to enable connections from Linux and MacOS clients soon. AWS will also adding the GPU-based Graphics.g4dn and GraphicsPro.g4dn bundles in the coming weeks.

The open source Porting Assistant for .NET is designed to scan .NET apps and list the things that need to be fixed in order to port the app to Linux. This, AWS argues, will help customers “take ...

IBM Corp. subsidiary Red Hat Inc. today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Workstations on the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud. The product is a virtual Linux ...

Open-source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana will be supported by the newly formed OpenSearch Software Foundation, whose members include AWS, Uber, Canonical, and Aiven.