Jeevachaithanyan Sivanandan

Filezilla to copy files to AWS EC2 using SCP/SFTP

· 1 min read

This a simple tip on how to use FileZilla to copy any local files from your local dev machine into your AWS EC2 server. This might be handy when you dont want to use the SCP command line way using SSH.

  1. open Filezilla and go to Site manager -> New Site , give any name you want
  2. On the right side pane, choose SFTP protocol
  3. Host as your public EC2 IP
  4. Logon type as KeyFile
  5. user as your AMI user name ( if its an Ubuntu Server usually the username is Ubuntu but crosscheck with your AWS EC2 Dashboard
  6. KeyFile - select and choose the PEM file you have when you created the EC2
  7. Connect - and its done

It should be connected now and you can upload any files or images from your dev local to EC2 instance.