Opening SSH to AWS-hosted Linux servers via mRemoteNG

mRemoteNGmRemoteNG is nice and lightweight tabbed session manager. It is a perfect fit to manage your remote server farm with both Windows and Linux machines, since it supports multiple connection protocols out of the box – including SSH and RDP (yet, you may need to update your older Windows client to run newer RDP version).

However, connecting to Linux instances that run on AWS requires a bit more than just SSH client. As you probably know, Linux EC2 instances have password authentication disabled by default to prevent brute-force attacks and want you to supply your private key instead. But there is no such field in mRemoteNG configuration pane! So, how can you configure it to send your private key instead of password?

It appears that mRemoteNG relies on embedded PuTTY to provide SSH support. In turn, PuTTY by itself is able to work with private keys authentication required by AWS. Here is the detailed explanation about the configuration steps.

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