Amazon default instance users table

To connect by SSH to the VM use the Amazon default instance user as found in the following table

OS/Distro

Official AMI
ssh Username

Legacy / Community / Other AMI
ssh Usernames

OS/Distro

Official AMI
ssh Username

Legacy / Community / Other AMI
ssh Usernames

Amazon Linux

ec2-user



Ubuntu

ubuntu

root

Debian

admin

root

RHEL 6.4 and later

ec2-user



RHEL 6.3 and earlier

root



Fedora

fedora

ec2-user, root

Centos

centos

root

SUSE

ec2-user

root

BitNami

bitnami



TurnKey

root



NanoStack

ubuntu



FreeBSD

ec2-user



OmniOS

root



 

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