Rsync to Amazon Ec2 Instance

Question

I have an EC2 instance running and I am able to SSH into it.

However, when I try to rsync, it gives me the error Permission denied (publickey).

The command

Answer 1

Below is what I used and it worked. Source was ec2 and target was home machine.

 sudo rsync  -azvv -e "ssh -i /home/ubuntu/key-to-ec2.pem" ec2-user@xx.xxx.xxx.xx:/home/ec2-user/source/ /home/ubuntu/target/