SSH to Cisco CSR1000v / EC2 Instance in AWS Cloud using SecureCRT

Please refer the following post which will be the preface of this post.
Deploy Cisco CSR1000v / EC2 Instance in a Public Subnet in AWS Cloud

I don't know whether this is the best way or not. It just worked for me and I love using SecureCRT instead of PuTTY. But in my case, I  had to log through PuTTY first and then create a username with a password in order to log in to CSR through SecureCRT. That part is on the above post.

Go to PuTTY and enter the following Cisco IOS command to create a new user;

username cisco privilege 15 password cisco

Open SecureCRT..

Go to Options > Global Options, select SSH2 and browse to the .PEM file you downloaded while the deployment. Click on Create Identity file, which will open Key Generation Wizard.

In the next page select RSA (the default will be DSA)

Next page, leave empty for the Passphrase..

Leave key length to 1024 in the next page,hit next and hit Finish..

Now get a new connection and try to SSH to the public IP of the Instance with the username and password created using the PuTTY session. It should work..