amazon web services - AWS ssh access 'Permission denied (publickey)' issue

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For Ubuntu instances:

chmod 600 ec2-keypair.pem
ssh -v -i ec2-keypair.pem [email protected]

For other instances, you might have to use ec2-user instead of ubuntu.

Most EC2 Linux images I've used only have the root user created by default.

See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBro0TEAd7g