How Can I Download a File from EC2

Question

What scp arguments should I use to download a file from an Amazon EC2 instance to local storage?

Answer 1

You can do this using SCP:

scp -i demo.pem name@ec2ip:/path/to/file

where:

• demo.pem is your PEM key

• Name is your login username

• ec2ip is the public IP of the instance

• /path/to/file is the location where the file is stored

This command will copy the file to your local folder