Q:

Amazon Putty connect

I am trying to connect to Amazon EC2 with putty but the key provided by amazon is being  rejected. I destroyed all instances and all key pairs. Then I created new ones and still the same problem.
Anybody?
Thanks.

A:

Did you read the Amazon docs appendix on PuTTY? It goes into what you have to do to connect with PuTTY, because:

PuTTY does not natively support the
  private key format generated by Amazon
  EC2. Fortunately PuTTY has a tool
  called PuTTYgen which can convert keys
  to its internal format.

(This was the first hit on a search for "putty ec2" btw.)

