ec2 putty connect problem

Question

I have followed Amazon instructions to the letter and it does not work.

ec2-api-tools-1.3-34128 - this is the api tools that I got from Amazon Set it up following instructions. Checked everything to make sure I follow instructions. When I try to use it, I only get: "invalid.blabla" depending on what command do I try to use. Anybody with this problem?

I deleted all my instances and all key pairs. Created new ones (instance and key pair). Setup putty all over again like instructions say I should do (creating .ppk file and everything). Still the problem remains. When I try to connect to my ec2 instance using putty I get "login as : " ????????

Also, I am using windows vista. Is this a problem.

Thanks

Answer 1

Did you make sure that you put "root" as the auto-login account in the "Data" section?

Answer 2

A mistake I made than gave me the same error message was setting "root@ec2-.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com" as the value in the "Host Name (or IP Address)" field in putty.

You need to specify "ubuntu@ec2-.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com".