Click on “Save…” and give it a descritive name like “my-db-server”.
Select the PPK file in box “Private key file”.
Enter “User name” (ec2-user, root etc.).
In the Login dialog, click on the “New” button.
Create PPK file by clicking on “Save private key”.
Change the comment from ‘imported-openssh-key” to a something more descriptive like “my-db-server”.
In the dialog, locate the pem file and “Open” it.
From the menu option “Conversions”, select “Import key”.
You can convert the PEM to PPK file using Puttygen. Putty uses a different format called PPK. This private key file is in a form called PEM – “Private Enhanced Mail”. When you created the EC2 instance, you were given a private key file (extension. From this site ( ), install Putty and PuttyGen.įrom this site ( ), install WinSCP.