Step 1: Create a Key Pair
- On the AWS Console, navigate to EC2 in the region corresponding to your Elastic Beanstalk Environment.
- From the left side menu, under ‘Network and Security’, click on ‘Key Pairs’.
- Click on ‘Create Key Pair’, and provide a name, select ‘RSA’ as the type, and .pem as the file format, and click on ‘Create key pair’.
A .pem file will be downloaded on your machine. Remember where you store it. I will be storing it in d:/keys/ on my Windows machine.
Step 2: Add the Key Pair to the Elastic Beanstalk Environment
- On the AWS Console, navigate to the Elastic Beanstalk environment you want to SSH into
- From the left pane, click on ‘Configuration’, and click on ‘Edit’ next to the ‘Security’ option.
- Select the EC2 Key Pair you just created in the ‘EC2 key pair’ section.
- Click on ‘Apply’. The changes will take effect.
Step 3: Identify the Public IPv4 DNS of your instance
- Navigate to the EC2 Console, and identify the instance corresponding to the Elastic Beanstalk environment that you would like to SSH into.
- Copy the Public IPv4 DNS
Step 4: SSH into your instance
- Open a command prompt/terminal on your machine
- Type the following command
ssh -i <path_to_pem> ec2-user@<public_ipv4_dns>So, in this example, the BASH command would be:
ssh -i d:/keys/ElasticBeanstalkKeyPair.pem [email protected]It may give you a warning saying the authenticity of the host can’t be established, and will ask you to continue. Click on yes. You will now have SSHed into your instance! Congratulations!
I hope you liked this article. For more tutorials on AWS, check out https://iotespresso.com/category/aws/. Also, if you are planning to become a certified AWS Solutions Architect, I’d recommend that you check out this course on Udemy. I took this course and found the lectures to be lucid, to-the-point, and fun. I hope they will help you as well.