How to ssh into EC2 instance without .pem key?

Question

I am able to access my instance with a .pem key, but once I have added the public key to authorized keys I should be able to connect without .pem key as well but that is not happening.

Answer 1

You will require an ssh-agent to provide the .pem key during ssh

Here are the steps for the same :

1) Start the ssh-agent

eval `ssh-agent -s`

2) Add the .pem file to the agent

ssh-add <pem-key>

Now you no longer require a .pem file while you ssh into the EC2 instance

Hope this helps!

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