无法从AWS下载文件

Question

I am very new to aws ec2. I am able to connect to my aws instance through ssh. However, I am getting error when trying to use scp command to download files from the server to my local machine or upload from local machine to the server.

here is how I use the command to download a file from aws to my local machine:

scp -i C:/users.../MyFile.pem ubuntu@ec2xxxxxx.amazonaws.com: /aws_filepath/xxx

I get error:

Warning: Indentity file MyFile.pem not accessible:no such file or directory Permission denied (publickey). cp: omitting directory '/aws_filepath/xxx'

I am not sure where do I specify the file name of the file I want to download? Could you please check my command and see what is i am doing wrong?

Thank you

Answer 1

Ok the error is in the path. Use the command in this format. Remove c: also make sure you have the pem file in that path.

scp -i /users.../MyFile.pem ubuntu@ec2xxxxxx.amazonaws.com: /aws_filepath/xxx