SFTP from AWS EC2 linux AMI to windows 7 home computer

Question

I'm not very good with this kind of stuff, I have been searching for weeks to try to find out how to do this. My problem is that i have some files on my EC2 instance that i want to transfer to my home computer... namely a folder called "dra-ne" /home/ec2-user/ssrh/dra-ne . I get the error message: "Permission Denied (Public key)" Whenever i try to transfer it to my computer. Any help would be appreciated... Also please if you could explain it in an easy to understand way for "noobs".

Answer 1

I assume that you have a EC2 instance with Linux and you can access it with ssh (you have a authentication key). Than you should access your EC2 instance with SCP client, e.g. WinSCP.

Answer 2

I'm using winSCP without problem to access my instances.

Make sure to:

• Use the right user name (ubuntu for my Ubuntu based instance)
• Use the public name of the instance
• Have the key in the right format (PUTTY's .ppk )
• Have your IP authorized to access the instance