How to connect to a new Amazon LightSail node via ssh in one command

You can follow the instructions on this tutorial if you just want to ssh into your node and be done with it

The end result of that tutorial is running the following command to ssh into your LightSail instance:

ssh -i /path/to/private-key.pem username@public-ip-address

Keep reading if you want to just ssh into your server with one word/command.

Follow the instructions on the tutorial until Step 3.

Once you have the private key downloaded, move it to your .ssh directory.

mv ~/Documents/LightsailDefaultKey-us-west-2.pem ~/.ssh

Continue following the AWS LightSail tutorial up until Step 3.3.

Now we will configure our ssh access so we can just run a one word command.

If you don’t have a local ssh key yet follow this tutorial or google it.

Go to your terminal again:
cd ~/.ssh
vi config
# Once you are in this file create a new Host block
Host my-server
  HostName domain-or-ip-goes-here
  User bitnami
    PreferredAuthentications publickey
      IdentityFile ~/.ssh/LightsailDefaultKey-us-west-2.pem

Now let’s try running the command:

ssh my-server

If you are successful you will be logged in to your instance and see the Bitnami welcome logo!