Comments on: Amazon EC2 UI for FireFox http://killersoft.com/randomstrings/2007/01/26/amazon-ec2-ui-for-firefox/ The Killersoft Blog by Clay Loveless Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:41:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: John Herren http://killersoft.com/randomstrings/2007/01/26/amazon-ec2-ui-for-firefox/#comment-7244 John Herren Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:26:06 +0000 http://killersoft.com/randomstrings/2007/01/26/amazon-ec2-ui-for-firefox/#comment-7244 EC2 hackers will also want to check out the S3 Firefox extension to provide a graphical, FTP-like interface to S3. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3247/ Another tip: if you are using puTTY to access your EC2 instance, be sure to stick a newline character at the end of the .pem file that Amazon provides you. Otherwise puttygen won't be able to load it and create a .ppk file from it. Hope that saves someone the 45 minutes of frustration that it caused me :) EC2 hackers will also want to check out the S3 Firefox extension to provide a graphical, FTP-like interface to S3.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3247/

Another tip: if you are using puTTY to access your EC2 instance, be sure to stick a newline character at the end of the .pem file that Amazon provides you. Otherwise puttygen won’t be able to load it and create a .ppk file from it. Hope that saves someone the 45 minutes of frustration that it caused me :)

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