Uninstall EC2 Instance Connect
To disable EC2 Instance Connect, connect to your Linux instance and uninstall the
ec2-instance-connect package that is installed on the OS. If
the sshd configuration matches what it was set to when you
installed EC2 Instance Connect, uninstalling ec2-instance-connect also
removes the sshd configuration. If you modified the
sshd configuration after installing EC2 Instance Connect, you must
update it manually.
- Amazon Linux
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You can uninstall EC2 Instance Connect on AL2023 and Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20190618 or
later, where EC2 Instance Connect is preconfigured.
To uninstall EC2 Instance Connect on an instance launched using Amazon Linux
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Connect to your instance using SSH. Specify the SSH key pair you
used for your instance when you launched it and the default username
for the AL2023 or Amazon Linux 2 AMI, which is
ec2-user.
For example, the following ssh command connects
to the instance with the public DNS name
ec2-a-b-c-d.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com, using
the key pair my_ec2_private_key.pem.
$ ssh -i my_ec2_private_key.pem ec2-user@ec2-a-b-c-d.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
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Uninstall the ec2-instance-connect package
using the yum command.
[ec2-user ~]$ sudo yum remove ec2-instance-connect
- Ubuntu
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To uninstall EC2 Instance Connect on an instance launched using an Ubuntu
AMI
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Connect to your instance using SSH. Specify the SSH key pair you
used for your instance when you launched it and the default username
for the Ubuntu AMI, which is ubuntu.
For example, the following ssh command connects
to the instance with the public DNS name
ec2-a-b-c-d.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com, using
the key pair my_ec2_private_key.pem.
$ ssh -i my_ec2_private_key.pem ubuntu@ec2-a-b-c-d.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
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Uninstall the ec2-instance-connect package
using the apt-get command.
ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get remove ec2-instance-connect
