Download files from amazon ec2 instance filezilla

Using FileZilla to transfer data¶

If you want a more user-friendly tool to transfer data, FileZilla is a good choice. It is free, it supports Windows/Linux/Mac systems, and it has a good user interface. It supports FTP, SFTP and other file transfer protocols.

Firstly, go to &#;rushbrookrathbone.co.uk&#; and click &#;Download FileZilla Client&#; button to download it.

The interface of FileZilla is like this:

If you want to use FileZila to upload to or download data from a normal FTP server if you have the user and password, just put the information in the &#;Host&#;, &#;Username&#;, &#;Password&#; box and connect. However for Amazon instance, we use key-pair to log in instead of password for better safety. So it is a little bit more complicated to configure.

Open &#;Settings&#; and click &#;SFTP&#;:

Click &#;Add keyfile&#;:

Then select the &#;.pem&#; file you used to connect to Amazon instance with ssh.

There is a dialog box to ask you if you want to convert the &#;.pem&#; file into a supported format. Click &#;Yes&#;.

Name it with extension as &#;.ppk&#; and save it.

You will see the a private key has been added.

Close &#;Settings&#; and go back to the main interface.

Click button to open the site manager.

Click &#;New Site&#;.

Put the Amazon instance URL like rushbrookrathbone.co.uk in the &#;Host&#; box. Set &#;Protocol&#; as &#;SFTP&#;, &#;Logon Type&#; as &#;Normal&#;, &#;User&#; as &#;ubuntu&#; and leave &#;Password&#; as blank. Then click &#;Connect&#;.

There will be a dialogue box to ask you about &#;Unknown host key&#;, just click &#;Ok&#;.

All right. Now you have logged in the Amazon instance. You can drag and drop to transfer the files between the remote machine and your local laptop.