For example: .com (the actual address of your own EC2 instance will differ based on its IP address and availability zone).

In the Server field, enter the address for your EC2 instance.

Select SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) from the items in the drop-down menu.

Click the drop-down menu at the top of the pop-up, which defaults to FTP (File Transfer Protocol).

Click the Open Connection icon in the top-left corner of the Cyberduck browser.

Open Cyberduck from the Applications folder.

If you have already read and tried to follow along with the instructions in WordPress on Amazon EC2: Connect to an Instance via SSH, some of these steps will be familiar to you.

I need the host address and login credentials for the server I am trying to connect to, including the private key needed to authenticate an SSH connection with the server.

The FTP client I am using is called Cyberduck, but these instructions should be easy enough to use with another FTP client, such as FileZilla.In this tutorial I will go over the steps needed to access your WordPress files by connecting to an Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 instance over FTP (or, more accurately, SFTP) using an FTP client. This is part of my Introduction to Hosting WordPress on Amazon Web Services (AWS) tutorial.

This article was originally created in 2018 and completely updated in May 2020.

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