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I recently became responsible for administering several Amazon Web Services Elastic Cloud Computing instances, some of which run Ubuntu and some of which run Amazon Linux. I have the key pair as a .pem file. What is the username I should use when connecting via SSH?

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It is different for different distributions. The default user for Amazon Linux is ec2-user.

The default user for Ubuntu is ubuntu.

This is documented at amazon:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AccessingInstancesLinux.html

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