This post is for those(like me) who have to regularly use ssh or scp against remote servers & are used too of typing verbose ssh command.
ssh -i .ssh/my_very_own.pem myuser@my-personal-domain-in-cloud
Luckily we can save lots of our time by making use of ssh config files & minimize the amount of effort required in typing the above command. All we have to do is create config file under _.ssh_ directory & add the following lines:
Host mydomain
HostName my-personal-domain-in-cloud
User myuser
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/my_very_own.pem
And thats it. Once the above configuration is in place then we can either ssh or scp by simply doing saying ssh mydomain or scp mydomain.