You can get the public DNS for your instance using the Amazon EC2 console (check the Public DNS (IPv4) column if this column is hidden, choose the Show/Hide icon and select Public DNS (IPv4)). Get the public DNS name of the instance.If you prefer, you can use the describe-instances (AWS CLI) or Get-EC2Instance (AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell) command. You can get the ID of your instance using the Amazon EC2 console (from the Instance ID column). If you already have an older version of PuTTY for Mac installed, we recommend that you download the latest version. Download and install PuTTY from the PuTTY for Mac store.