If you have created a AWS EC2 Windows instance using your AWS Console and wondering how to connect to it using your Mac? Here are the steps to quickly connect to it,
- Step 1: You will first need to download Microsoft Remote Desktop Application from Mac App Store
Microsoft Remote Desktop for Mac lets you access to a remote PC or Virtual Machine Desktop (like AWS EC2), you can securely connect to all kind of Windows OS - Windows Professional or Enterprise and Windows Server.
- Step 2: On your AWS Console, go to your Windows instance page and make sure it is launched - now click on Connect button.
AWS Console - Windows EC2 Connect Button
- Step 3: Now click on the RDP Client Tab, copy the Public DNS you will need this to connect to your instance. Now click on the Password button.
Click on Get Password under RDP Client
Browse your .pem file associated with the instance and decrypt the password.
Copy the decrypted plain text password. - Step 4: Now launch the download - Windows Remote Desktop (RDP) Application and click on Add PC
Under PC name add the Public DNS that we just copied at Step 3, you can add a friendly name as well - MyAWSWindowsInstance is what I have added in my case. Click on Add.
Now, enter your user User name as "Administrator" and password that we copied using .pem file in Step 3.
You are connecting to the RDP host "ec2-xx-xxx-xxx-xx.us- east-2.compute.amazonaws.com". The certificate couldn't be verified back to a root certificate. Your connection may not be secure. Do you want to continue?
You will see a message as above, click on continue.
That's it! The next you will loggned into your Windows Desktop, on the top right you should see details of your Device.
Hostname: EC2AMAZ-LXXXXX
Instance ID: i-010XXXXXXXXXXX
Public IP Address: xx-xxx-xxx-xx
Private IP Address: 172.31.16. 27
Instance Size: t2.micro
Availability Zone: us-east-2b
Architecture: AMD64
Total Memory: 1024 MB
Network Performance: Low to Moderate

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