Saturday, November 02, 2013

Copying Files to AWS Instance Using RDP

If you want to copy files to AWS EC2 instance...

Before you connect to the instance, wander through the tabs and find check the box under "Local drives and resources" for your C: drive. Once connected to the instance, open Windows Explorer and in the address bar, type "\\tsclient\c" (without quotes). your local PC's C: drive will (slowly) open up in Explorer and you can drag&drop.

This doesn't require any additional ports to be opened up; it goes over the RDP connection you already using for remote desktop.