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SSH

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The Secure Shell Protocol is a (popular) way to securely connect to computers over the internet, usually in the context of powerful servers in the cloud. It uses cryptography to make sure that only specific, verifiable people and devices have access to the server in question. When you set up a machine in the cloud on something like AWS, the first thing you need to do is SSH into that server to run commands there and get things running.

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