My article “ Linux Amazon EC2 tutorial: How to set up an EC2 instance ” shows you how to set up Amazon Web Services’ compute service if you use Linux (specifically, Ubuntu Linux).

PuTTY, EC2 and PEM files Once the connection is made, you can issue commands and configure your EC2 instance at will. And that’s how easy it is to convert a PEM file to PPK format and PuTTY into ...