How to create key from aws cli

Question

Hi Guys,

I am new in aws cli. Can anyone help me, how can I create one key?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,
You can use the bellow given command to create a key.

$ aws ec2 create-key-pair --key-name mykey --query 'KeyMaterial' --output text > Mykey.pem

To make .pem file readable.

$ chmod 400 Mykey.pem

Hope this will help you.