🔑Retrieve your EC2 Key

Follow the steps below to securely download your EC2 key pair and connect to your instance.

  1. Login to your AWS Console.

  2. Type “Systems Manager” in the search bar of the AWS console. Alternatively click here to go directly to Systems Manager.

  3. Click on “Parameter Store” present on the left pane of Systems Manger dashboard.

  4. Open your desired EC2 key pair, copy the encrypted value and save it as the same name as the expected key (with .pem extension)

  5. You can now use this pem file to access your EC2 Instance.

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