AWS Security Groups Overview

Access to an AWS cloud instance can be controlled by 

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Please see the relevant AWS documentation for more information and configuration details.

Connecting to the Cloud Instance

During the configuration of your instance you should have created a security group allowing at the minimum SSH access to the instance. If this has been done correctly, you can, for example, use SSH from the command-line or from a tool such as PuTTY to access the command-line of the user sshuser (for a Charon -SSP prepackaged marketplace images) or your custom user (for RPM installations) on the Charon -SSP host instance.

If you select your instance in the instance list and then click on Connect, you will see the instructions for connecting via SSH.

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• the name of the private key that must be used to connect to the instance,
• the public DNS name of the instance, and
• a sample user name that must be adapted to the actual user name to be used for your instance.

Please note: the

• The file permissions of the private key file must be set such that the file is only readable by the user (e.g., # chmod 400 <private-key-file>).
• PuTTY uses a different key file format. It comes with tools to convert between its own .ppk format and the format of OpenSSH used by the default Linux tools.

There are several ways to connect to your Charon -SSP cloud instance using this basic SSH protocol access. Some of them are described in the following sections below.

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