Connecting AWS from Windows. Error: Using username "ec2-user". Server refused our key

Question

I am connecting AWS EC2 using Putty from Windows 8, I followed all steps mentioned on this page of conversion of .pem to .ppk and have loaded .ppk in Putty.

Putty Configurations:

Host Address: ec2-user@PUBLIC_DNS_ADDRESS
Connection Type: SSH
Private key file is set in Connection -> SSH -> Auth

Now when I click Open, it shows error.

Using username "ec2-user". Server refused our key

Note: Also tried root user

Please have a look at below screen.

error screen

Security Groups -> MY Group -> Edit Inbound Rules

As you can see connection is allowed form everywhere.

SSH rule in AWS Inbound Rules

Try getting more information by using the -v option for putty, or trying the ssh command with -v — mbaird, May 14 '15 at 16:06
Also, see the answer to this extremely similar question: http://serverfault.com/questions/626825/server-refused-our-key-aws-putty?rq=1 — mbaird, May 14 '15 at 16:07

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 14 '15 at 15:22

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Change your username to "root" and it can work or AWS will tell you what username you should use.

answered May 14 '15 at 15:22

El Chapo Gluzman

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I already tried root – Tahir Yasin May 14 '15 at 15:23
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11614254/server-refused-our-key-after-launching-instance-from-private-ebs-ami – El Chapo Gluzman May 14 '15 at 15:25
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I suggest to elaborate more your answer. – peterh May 14 '15 at 16:44
its already pretty much explained, can you please tell me what is unclear? – Tahir Yasin May 20 '15 at 11:38

Connecting AWS from Windows. Error: Using username "ec2-user". Server refused our key

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