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

copy file from local machine to server

rsync -avz -e "ssh -i /path/to/key.pem" /path/to/file.txt  @:/path/to/directory/

copy file from server to local machine

rsync -avz -e "ssh -i /path/to/key.pem" @:/path/to/directory/file.txt  /path/to/directory/