AWS SSH connection error: Permission denied (publickey)

Question

Im trying to connect to my EC2 instance with SSH and Iḿ getting crazy. I have read this post and tried all user combinations:

AWS ssh access 'Permission denied (

Answer 1

One easy way to get this error is a corrupt .pem file.

For example, if the last line is missing, you get "missing begin marker".

Make sure the .pem ends with:

-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----