



There are several techniques to connect Amazon EC2 instances to manage OS level configurations. This blog provides detailed steps around SSH and x11 tools, various network and operating system (OS) level settings, and best practices to achieve the X11 forwarding on Amazon EC2 when installing databases like Oracle using GUI. This is helpful for system and database administrators, and application teams that want to perform software installations on Amazon EC2 using GUI method. In this post, I discuss enabling X11 forwarding from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Amazon Linux, SUSE Linux, Ubuntu servers running on Amazon EC2. This post was written by Sivasamy Subramaniam, AWS Database Consultant.
