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Creating a Private Key in Zend Studio

A Private Key is necessary in order to launch and access an Amazon EC2 Instance. Private Keys supply security to ensure that no unauthorized users can access your Instance. Creating a Private Key in Zend Studio allows you to create the private and public key which allow your Amazon EC2 Instance to identify you as an authorized user.

Before launching an Amazon EC2 Instance, you must create Private Key for that Instance or apply an existing Private Key.

Instructions on how to complete a procedure

To create a Private Key in Zend Studio:

Open the EC2 AMIs view by going to Window | Show View | Other | AWS Toolkit | EC2 AMIs.

Find your AMI in the EC2 AMIs view or use criteria to search for a specific AMI in the search field.
From the Right Click Menu of the desired AMI select Launch.
The Launch Amazon EC2 Instances dialog opens.

Open the Right Click Menu in the Key Pair section and select New Key Pair.
The Create New Key Pair dialog opens.

Enter a new Key Pair Name and click Browse if you would like to change the location where your Private Key Pair is saved.
Click OK to save your new Private Key.
Click Cancel to save the changes.

Before using your Private Key you must add it in the SSH2 Preferences page. For more information see Setting Up Your Amazon EC2 Instance in Zend Studio.

You can now launch your Amazon EC2 Instance in Zend Studio.

For more information on Amazon AWS Toolkit for Zend Studio see the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse User Guide by going to Help | Help Contents | AWS Toolkit for Eclipse User Guide or see the AWS Forums.