Listing and connecting to server instances - AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Listing and connecting to server instances

This topic explains how to view a list of the Amazon EC2 instances running your Elastic Beanstalk application environment and how to connect to them.

You can view a list of Amazon EC2 instances running your AWS Elastic Beanstalk application environment through the Elastic Beanstalk console. You can connect to the instances using any SSH client. You can connect to the instances running Windows using Remote Desktop.

Important

Before you can access your Elastic Beanstalk–provisioned Amazon EC2 instances, you must create an Amazon EC2 key pair and configure your Elastic Beanstalk–provisioned Amazon EC2instances to use the Amazon EC2 key pair. You can set up your Amazon EC2 key pairs using the AWS Management Console. For instructions on creating a key pair for Amazon EC2, see the Amazon EC2 Getting Started Guide. For more information on how to configure your Amazon EC2 instances to use an Amazon EC2 key pair, see EC2 key pair.

By default, Elastic Beanstalk does not enable remote connections to EC2 instances in a Windows container except for those in legacy Windows containers. (Elastic Beanstalk configures EC2 instances in legacy Windows containers to use port 3389 for RDP connections.) You can enable remote connections to your EC2 instances running Windows by adding a rule to a security group that authorizes inbound traffic to the instances. We strongly recommend that you remove the rule when you end your remote connection. You can add the rule again the next time you need to log in remotely. For more information, see Adding a Rule for Inbound RDP Traffic to a Windows Instance and Connect to Your Windows Instance in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide for Microsoft Windows.

To view and connect to Amazon EC2 instances for an environment

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

  2. In the navigation pane of the console, choose Load Balancers.

  3. Load balancers created by Elastic Beanstalk have awseb in the name. Find the load balancer for your environment and click it.

  4. Choose the Instances tab in the bottom pane of the console.

    A list of the instances that the load balancer for your Elastic Beanstalk environment uses is displayed. Make a note of an instance ID that you want to connect to.

  5. In the navigation pane of the Amazon EC2 console, choose Instances, and find your instance ID in the list.

  6. Right-click the instance ID for the Amazon EC2 instance running in your environment's load balancer, and then select Connect from the context menu.

  7. Make a note of the instance's public DNS address on the Description tab.

  8. Connect to an instance running Linux by using the SSH client of your choice, and then type ssh -i .ec2/mykeypair.pem ec2-user@<public-DNS-of-the-instance> .

For more information on connecting to an Amazon EC2 Linux instance, see Getting Started with Amazon EC2 Linux Instances in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

If your Elastic Beanstalk environment uses the .NET on Windows Server platform, see Getting Started with Amazon EC2 Windows Instances in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.