Using PuttyKeyGen to generate a PPK file

How to use PuttyKeyGen to generate a PPK file from a PEM file.

  1. Download you PEM File from AWS
  2. Copy it to a safe location
  3. Download either the entire Putty package and install everything, or just get Putty.exe and PuttyGen.exe
    It can be downloaded from here
  4. Open PuttyGen
  5. Click file, then load private key
  6. Select all files from the drop down list
  7. Select pem file, click open
  8. Make sure ssh-2 RSA is selected.
  9. Click save private key
  10. Enter a name for the ppk file and save

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