Setup PuTTY to connect to your Lightsail instance

Vincent Wong
Sep 1, 2020

I have spinned off a Lightsail instance for some times. All this while I am using the default browser-based SSH client.

Browser-based SSH client

Recently I switched to use PUTTY on a Windows machine. Here are the steps to set it up. The prerequisites are you should have the PUTTY installed and you know the public IP of the Lightsail instance.

  1. Download the private key

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