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How to move my files stored under my personal computer to my Amazon EC2 instance?

My question may sound funny to some of you since I am new to Terminal/Linux/Amazon AWS. But how can I move (copy) the file that is stored under my personal computer to my Amazon EC2 instance?

Thank you,

Solution

  • You can use scp. 

     scp -i privateKey.pem -r ./localDir ec2-user@ip:~

    To copy from ec2, reverse the command

    scp -i privateKey.pem -r ec2-user@ip:~/remote-dir ./localDir

    Please ec2-user with Ubuntu if you are using Ubuntu. This will copy to the home folder of the instance

    Note: Please note your private key file should not have too open permissions.

    chmod 400 /path/to/privateKeyFile.pem

    hope this helps.