Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) - import-key-pair error

[deepaksorthiya]

aws ec2 import-key-pair --key-name my-key --public-key-material file://~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

gives an error Invalid base64: "ssh-rsa....................

workaround
Use fileb:// in order for AWS CLI version 2 to treat the file content as unencoded binary.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cliv2-migration.html#cliv2-migration-binaryparam
aws ec2 import-key-pair --key-name "eksworkshop" --public-key-material fileb://~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

More Info

awslabs/ec2-spot-workshops#48