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For Amazon EC2 deployments, the "All hosts accept same public key" must be used.

The key downloaded from Amazon are RSA private keys. PuTTy (or more specifically Puttygen) is the easiest way of extracting the 2 (public and private) components. This is described below.

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For CentOS6/Amazon Linux AWS installs (ie anything after the original CentOS 5 distribution), you should use "ec2-user" as the login, not "root"

For keys in RSA format, download PuTTy and perform the following steps:

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