SCP Command
SCP (secure copy) is a command-line utility that allows you to securely copy files and directories between two locations.
From your local system to a remote system.
From a remote system to your local system.Attention pam.pem is the password file of Ec2 instance
scp provides a number of options that control every aspect of its behavior. The most widely used options are:
-P - Specifies the remote host ssh port.
-p - Preserves files modification and access times.
-q - Use this option if you want to suppress the progress meter and non-error messages.
-C - This option forces scp to compresses the data as it is sent to the destination machine.
-r - This option tells scp to copy directories recursively.