Amazon EC2 Linux servers do not come with GUI, all the operations Once you installed the GUI essentials on your server, you can access it via windows, remote desktop client.The problem with this way is that I just have one terminal CLI to access/edit all my code in EC2 instance, which has many files and folders. I have an Ubuntu AWS EC2 instance running in the AWS cloud and in my Windows machine I am using PuTTy to connect to it.