3.1.2 SSH Into a Lightsail Instance Using a Preferred Client

1. Copy IP address from the instance icon
2. Click on the instance name and scroll to ‘Connect using SSH’
3. Instance name will be “bitnami”
4. Obtain the SSH key
   • Account
   • Account (under Account)
   • SSH keys
   • Download ‘Default key’
   • Set permissions to ‘600’

     chmod 600 LightsailDefaultKey-us-west-2.pem
     

5. SSH into the instance using the instance’s IP address and the key

   ssh -i LightsailDefaultKey-us-west-2.pem bitnami@<IP-address>