#Using terminal app on my laptop did the following:
sudo ssh -i “MYAMOZONHOSTKEYPAIR.pem" -L 8001:127.0.0.1:8001 ubuntu@MYAMAZONHOST
#MYAMAZONHOST is where I am running k3s.
#Upon SSH did the following:
sudo k3s kubectl proxy
#Then using the browser opened the url http://localhost:8001/api/v1/namespaces/kubernetes-dashboard/services/https:kubernetes-dashboard:/proxy/
#Kubernetes dashboard opened successfully.