'How do I copy/paste in EC2 Connect AWS

I cannot use command+c/command+v on mac to copy paste text into my aws ec2 session window. How do I enable copy paste so that I can copy text from my local clipboard or from another window in ec2 session ?

I connected with "EC2 Instance Connect" from the console. Cmd-v just pastes a space.

Solution 1:^[1]

To test this situation, I launched an Amazon EC2 Linux instance and connected via EC2 Instance Connect.

I had the same experience as you:

Highlighting text 'copies' it to the clipboard
Right-clicking 'pastes' the clipboard
However, copying to the clipboard outside of the window and then attempting to paste it didn't work

This was using Google Chrome.

I then tried again using Safari and it worked fine.

So, there seems to be some strange behaviour in some browsers.

Solution 2:^[2]

I had the same problem. When I would paste, it just added a space instead of the clipboard contents. Double-pasting didn't seem to work either.

This sounds weird but what worked for me was opening a new blank tab and pasting in the address bar. I had to re-copy the content (it seems like the clipboard had lost it?) But once it worked in the address bar, I switched tabs and it worked in my EC2 Connect Console.

YMMV.

Solution 3:^[3]

I highlighted the text, then used my keyboard's menu button (located next to CTRL) to pop up the normal browser right-click menu... then clicked "copy"

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