A Lot of AWS Users Still Manage SSH Keys the Hard Way

I still come across a lot of EC2 setups where a brand-new SSH key pair gets created every time a new instance is launched. It works, but over time it also becomes difficult to manage — especially across multiple environments, engineers, or temporary workloads. What’s easy to miss is that AWS already lets you import an existing public SSH key directly as an EC2 key pair. That means you can keep using the same SSH workflow you already manage locally instead of constantly juggling separate keys for