2018-04-05-ssh-aws-yulife.md

I was getting ‘access denied - public key’ until I did the following:

ssh -i ~/.ssh/yu-wiki.pem ubuntu@ec2-54-229-139-63.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com

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