Trying to SSH into an Amazon Ec2 instance - permission error

Question

This is probably a stupidly simple question to some :)

I\'ve created a new linux instance on Amazon EC2, and as part of that downloaded the .pem file to allow me to

Answer 1

Ok man, the only thing that worked for me was:

1. Change permissions of the key

   chmod 400 mykey.pem

2. Make sure to log in using ec2-user, and the correct ec2-99... address. The ec2-99 address is at the bottom of the aws console when you're logged in and seeing your instance listed

   ssh -i mykey.pem ec2-user@ec2-99-99-99-99.compute-1.amazonaws.com