AWS Services

How to customize email notifications when an EC2 instance changes states?

Posted on November 30, 2021

We want to receive email notifications when an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance changes states. How can we do this? Overview: Below is the overview of steps that we are going to perform in order to achieve the desired output. To receive email notifications when your EC2 instance changes states: Create an Amazon[…]

How to SSH into an EC2 server with username other than the generic ec2-user.

Posted on September 10, 2021No Comments

Using the default user account is adequate for many applications. However, you may choose to add user accounts so that individuals can have their own files and workspaces. Furthermore, creating user accounts for new users is much more secure than granting multiple (possibly inexperienced) users access to the default user account, because the default user[…]