Logging into your Amazon machine (Windows version)

On Windows:

For Windows, you’ll need to download PuTTYgen, use it to open the amazon.pem file, and save the results PuTTY key as ‘amazon.ppk’. The result file can be used both by PuTTY and by WinSCP – to use it in PuTTY, edit the “Connection... SSH... Auth... Private key file for authentication” setting:

Assuming all of your authentication etc. is set up properly, you should be able to log in and see a prompt that looks like this:

ip-10-243-151-85:~#

Congrats! You have your very own cloud computer!