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• An access key grants programmatic access to your resources. This means that the access key should be guarded as carefully as the AWS account root user sign-in credentials. It's a best practice to do the following: Create an IAM user and then define that user's permissions as narrowly as possible. Create the access key under that IAM user.
• Jul 15, 2014 Now that the key pair is created, it’s time to create two instances: one Linux instance and one Windows instance. During the process of creating the instances, specifically at the very end of the instance launch, you will be asked if you want to use a key pair and if yes, to select an existing one or create a new one.
• For creating New Pem key: Go to EC2 Dashboard Key Pair Create Key Pair. This will download pem key file for you. For SSH access: You can add your idrsa.pub to instance /.ssh/auth. file. After that, you can ssh to it by using ssh ubuntu@ip; You can use the pem key which is associated with that instance by using ssh -i 'file.pem' ubuntu@ip.
• Provides an EC2 key pair resource. A key pair is used to control login access to EC2 instances. Currently this resource requires an existing user-supplied key pair. This key pair's public key will be registered with AWS to allow logging-in to EC2 instances. When importing an existing key pair the public key material may be in any format.
• PuTTY does not natively support the private key format for SSH keys. PuTTY provides a tool named PuTTYgen, which converts keys to the required format for PuTTY. You must convert your private key (.pem file) into this format (.ppk file) as follows in order to connect to your instance using PuTTY.

How do I change the key pair for my ec2 instance in AWS management console? I can stop the instance, I can create new key pair, but I don't see any link to modify the instance's key pair.

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Sometimes we get the requirement to change the key-pair for some security reasons. In this article, we will be changing the key pair of running EC2 instances.

Steps:

1. Create a new key pair from AWS Console.
2. Generate Public key from newly created key pair ( Private Key ).
3. Paste the generated public key ( from Step 2 ) in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys of Server.
4. Delete the existing key from ~/.ssh/authorized_keys of Server
5. Perform ssh using new key.

Lost Aws Key Pair

I have a running EC2 Instance ( Ubuntu 14.04 ) having key-pair “testing-key”.

Let’s change the key

1. Create a new key pair from AWS Console

Aws Generate New Key Pair From Running Instance 2017

This is a private key that you have to download on your local machine.

2. Generate Public Key from Private Key (testing-ssh-key)

Execute

and provide the path for private key.
Here “testing-ssh-key.pem” is the new private key

3. Append the above generated public key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

4. Remove the old key from ~/.ssh/authorized_keys ( “testing-key.pem” )

5. Perform ssh using new key

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You can now log in using new key.

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Note: This article is not for changing key-pair if it is lost or deleted. Before performing below actions, it is advisable to take the backup of existing EC2 Instance.