Permissions for 'privatekey.ppk' are too open. It is required that your private key files are NOT accessible by others. code example
Example 1: Permissions 0664 for '/home/kapua/keys/dev11' are too open.
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa
Example 2: It is required that your private key files are NOT accessible by others ubuntu
chmod 400 {keyfile}.pem is what amazon instructed and it works.