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

There can be three reasons behind this error.

1. Your are using a wrong key.
2. Your key doesn't have the correct permissions. You need to chmod it to 400.
3. You are using the wrong user. Ubuntu images have a user ubuntu, Amazon's AMI is ec2-user and debian images have either root or admin