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Hello.
Lightsail normally uses public key authentication instead of password authentication to connect with things like SSH.
Therefore, download the key pair and connect by following the steps in the document below.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lightsail/latest/userguide/amazon-lightsail-ssh-using-terminal.html
Also, if you are using the Ubuntu blueprint, the OS user will be "ubuntu".
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Now I couldn't create instance now with key pair generation code added. New code:
It says:
`operation error Lightsail: CreateInstances, https response error StatusCode: 400, RequestID: 0eefa119-62f3-4cca-b09b-5ce625ce8dbc, NotFoundException: The
The KeyPair does not exist:
key_pair_name = aws_lightsail_key_pair.private_key_1.idThis should be referring to the keypain name as below
key_pair_name = aws_lightsail_key_pair.private_key_1.name