Can I connect to my Lightsail instance via VNC?

Question

Our system administrator really needs VNC access to our Lightsail instance as a minimum requirement. We are new users of Lightsail but the lack of VNC connectivity is preventing us to stay with the Lightsail platform. (We use Ubuntu)
Is there a solution to this pls?

Accepted Answer

Hi,

I found this Ubuntu tutorial for configuring VNC on an Ubuntu server in EC2: https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/ubuntu-desktop-aws#1-overview

The steps should be identical except for step 4 (`AWS Configuration`): Instead, navigate to your instance's networking tab and configure a firewall rule to allow TCP connections on port `5901`.

Here's a link to documentation on how to configure instance firewalls in Lightsail: 
* https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/docs/en_us/articles/understanding-firewall-and-port-mappings-in-amazon-lightsail

Answer

That tutorial works on Ubuntu 16.04. There is an updated one that works for 22.04 and 23.10 here: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/launch-ubuntu-desktop-mantic-minotaur-on-ec2/40529/3

Can I connect to my Lightsail instance via VNC?

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