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Connect to an instance with RDP

Connect to an instance with RDP

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Connect to an instance with RDP

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- [Instructor] Now that I've shown you how to retrieve the password for a virtual machine instance, I want to show you how to log into that instance using RDP. As you can see, I'm signed into the EC2 console, and I've got a list of instances on screen. So let's go ahead and connect one of these instances. I've got one instance that's running. I've got another instance displayed here that's been terminated. So let's log into the running instance. I'm going to go ahead and click on the instance ID and then I'm going to click connect. When I do, I'm taken to the connect to instance screen. Because this is a Windows instance, I need to select the RDP client tab. And this gives me a bit of information. You can see the instance ID, you can see that the connection type is set to connect using RDP client. You can also see the public IP address that's associated with this instance. And this is important because we have to connect using the public IP. You can also see the username that's being…

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