[SOLVED] How to move my files stored under my personal computer to my Amazon EC2 instance?

Issue

My question may sound funny to some of you since I am new to Terminal/Linux/Amazon AWS. But how can I move (copy) the file that is stored under my personal computer to my Amazon EC2 instance?

Thank you,

Solution

You can use scp.

 scp -i privateKey.pem -r ./localDir ec2-user@ip:~

To copy from ec2, reverse the command

scp -i privateKey.pem -r ec2-user@ip:~/remote-dir ./localDir

Please ec2-user with Ubuntu if you are using Ubuntu. This will copy to the home folder of the instance

Note: Please note your private key file should not have too open permissions.

chmod 400 /path/to/privateKeyFile.pem 

hope this helps.

Answered By - Arun Kamalanathan

Answer Checked By - Mary Flores (WPSolving Volunteer)