scp (secure copy) to ec2 instance without password

Question

I have an EC2 instance running (FreeBSD 9 AMI ami-8cce3fe5), and I can ssh into it using my amazon-created key file without password prompt, no problem.

However, whe

Answer 1

scp -i /path/to/your/.pemkey -r /copy/from/path user@server:/copy/to/path

Answer 2

copy a file from a local server to a remote server

sudo scp -i my-pem-file.pem ./source/test.txt ec2-user@1.2.3.4:~/destination/

copy a file from a remote server to a local machine

sudo scp -i my-pem-file.pem ec2-user@1.2.3.4:~/source/of/remote/test.txt ./where/to/put

So the basically syntax is:-

scp -i my-pem-file.pem username@source:/location/to/file username@destination:/where/to/put

-i is for the identity_file