I did not say that sshd is missing in the AMI. There are 2 versions of UE available. There is the AMI version on AWS Marketplace and there is a downloadable version which is an OVA file that you can download and run on your own local machine using VirtualBox or VMWare. The AMI version to which your are trying to connect does have an sshd, but it is there solely for the purpose of allowing Amazon Marketplace to do a security scan of the image prior to putting it on Marketplace. Neither the AMI version nor the downloadable version were meant to be connected to end users via ssh. They are intended to be self maintaining appliances that are accessed from a web browser. The downloadable version supports shared folders on your local machine which gives you another way to easily move data and SAS code in and out of SAS Studio and JupyterLab. The AMI version, lacking shared folder support only provides the SAS Studio upload/download. ... View more

SAS University Edition is not meant to accessed via ssh. In the downloadable version of SAS UE, there is not even an sshd server in the image. In the AWS version of SAS UE, the only reason that there is an ssh interface at all is so that the AWS admins can use it to do a security scan of the image.   SAS University Edition is designed to be accessed via web browser. From your AWS console, get the Public DNS for the URL and use the instanceID as the password. If you want to upload/download files to SAS UE, you can use the file upload/download facility built into SAS Studio. ... View more