Jenkins on AWS

From the Jenkins Credentials Provider, select AWS Credentials as the Kind.

Scroll down and enter in the IAM User programmatic access keys with permissions to launch EC2 instances and select Add.

Scroll down to select your region using the drop-down, and select Add for the EC2 Key Pair’s Private Key.

From the Jenkins Credentials Provider, select SSH Username with private key as the Kind and set the Username to ec2-user.

Scroll down and select Enter Directly under Private Key, then select Add.

Open the private key pair you created in the creating a key pair step and paste in the contents from “—–BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY—–” to “—–END RSA PRIVATE KEY—–“.
Select Add when completed.

Scroll down to “Test Connection” and ensure it states “Success”.
Select Save when done