Connect to an AWS EMR Master Node with PuTTY: A Visual Guide

Because AWS documentation is out-of-date, wrong, verbose yet not specific enough or requires you to read 5–10 different link trees of pages of documentation.

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1. Download the latest Stable installation of PuTTY (e.g. putty-64bit-0.74-installer.msi). The installation should also install needed utilities like puttygen and pageant.