Can we import ppk public key in AWS for EC2 ?

Question

Can we directly import ppk key as EC2 public key or it needs to be converted to PEM format and then imported as public key

Mihály Balogh Answered 1 year ago · Answer 1 · 2020-04-23 15:45:59

Mihály Balogh

Answered 1 year ago

Based on the official documentation it is not supported, you have to convert it first.

The following formats are supported:

OpenSSH public key format (the format in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys). If you connect using SSH while using the EC2 Instance Connect API, the SSH2 format is also supported.

– Base64 encoded DER format

SSH public key file format as specified in RFC4716
SSH private key file format must be PEM (for example, use ssh-keygen -m PEM to convert the OpenSSH key into the PEM format)

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