An EC2 Key Pair is a set of security credentials to be able to connect to an EC2 instance. The Key pair consists of a public key and a private key. For this workshop, you will need to create a key pair to be able to SSH into the EC2 instance that is hosting Puppet Enterprise. To learn more about EC2 Key Pairs, please go the key pair documentation.
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in the search bar, click the result to head to the EC2 dashboard.puppet-workshop-keypair
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Let’s move to the next section where we’ll sign up to use Puppet Enterprise for free and launch the software on an EC2 instance.