How to connect to Amazon EC2 using Filezilla

There are two sections of steps to establish connection using FileZilla to Amazon EC2 instance. To connect to Amazon EC@ instance, import the key file to Filezilla.

Import key file to Filezilla.

• Edit-> Settings -> Connection -> SFTP
• Click on "Add Keyfile" button.
• Browse to the location of your key file (.pem file provided by Amazon).
• Convert the .pem file to the supported format.

For connecting to Amazon EC2 Instance.

• Go to Site manager -> New site
• Fill in the following information
  • Host: DNS name of EC2 instance.
  • File transfer protocol: SFTP-SSH.
  • Logon Type: Normal.
  • User: Your default username.
  • Password: Leave it as empty.
  • Click Connect button.

Edit: FileZilla by default will figure out the desired key.

Please feel free to contact us if any queries on the configurations.