Get Please login as the user "ec2-user" rather than the user "root" error after connecting EC2 for several days

Question

Hi,

I keep getting this error after creating my EC2 instance and control it using ssh key pair for a while. This has happened 2 times. Last time I had to create a new instance and mount it to the existing EBS volume to recover the data.
Command to ssh using Windows Terminal:
```
ssh -i "C:\Users\Dell\.ssh\my-key-name.pem" ec2-user@myserver.com
```
Got:
> Please login as the user "ec2-user" rather than the user "root".
> Connection to myserver.com closed.

I can still ssh using EC2 Instance Connect.
Thanks for helping out.

Answer

Have you tried reviewing the EC2 logs? I'd start there, given you can connect with EC2 instance connect:

`/var/log/auth.log (Ubuntu) `

`/var/log/secure (Amazon Linux, CentOS) `

Get Please login as the user "ec2-user" rather than the user "root" error after connecting EC2 for several days

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