Connect to your AWS PCS cluster - AWS PCS

Connect to your AWS PCS cluster

After the status of the login compute node group becomes Active, you can connect to the EC2 instance it created.

To connect to the login node

  • Open the AWS PCS console and navigate to Clusters.

  • Select the cluster named get-started.

  • Choose Compute node groups.

  • Navigate to the compute node group named login.

  • Find the Compute node group ID.

  • In another browser window or tab, open the Amazon EC2 console.

    • Choose Instances.

    • Search for EC2 instances with the following tag. Replace node-group-id with the value of the Compute node group ID from the previous step. There should be 1 instance.

      aws:pcs:compute-node-group-id=node-group-id

    • Connect to the EC2 instance. You can use Session Manager or SSH.

      Session Manager

      • Select the instance.

      • Choose Connect.

      • Under Connect to instance, select Session Manager.

      • Choose Connect.

      • Choose Connect. An interactive terminal launches in your browser.

      SSH

      • Select the instance.

      • Choose Connect.

      • Under Connect to instance, select SSH client.

      • Follow the instructions provided by the console.

        Note

        The the user name for the instance is ec2-user not root.