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Connecting to instance labs

Connecting to instance labs - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Connecting to instance labs

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- In a previous episode, we looked at how you connect to an instance using SSH, Secure Shell but sometimes that's not how you want to connect. For example, I want you to think about something. If you have a Windows server in your environment how much do you really do at the command prompt or in Powershell? Not a whole lot. So most of it's not done from a command line interface it's done from a graphical interface. So what do I do when I'm running a Windows instance in AWS and I want to manage it like I'm sitting there at the server in my data center with a keyboard and mouse and a graphical screen in front of me? The answer is the Remote Desktop Protocol or RDP which has been built into Windows forever. And the simple fact is that AWS supports the use of R DP to get into remote Windows services as an instance. So what we're going to do is we're going to look at getting the connection information we need from AWS then using…

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