How to ssh into EC2 instance without PEM key

Question

I can access with the PEM key but after adding my local machine's public key to the authorized keys, I cannot login without the pem key. It just tells me "Permission denied (publickey). Can someone help me with this?

Answer 1

You need ssh-agent to supply your PEM file during ssh.

First, start the ssh-agent:

eval `ssh-agent -s`

Then add you PEM key to agent

ssh-add <pem-key>

Now you can ssh without supplying PEM.

this worked for me, hope this works for you aswell.