Unable to access AWS machine since no key-pair is available. Would it be possible to create a snapshot of the volume attached with this instance and atleast get access what is there in the machine?
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Connecting to your Linux instance if you lose your private key - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is the AWS documentation on what to do to connect to a Linux instance when the private key is lost. Nothing beats the AWS documentation, so I am leaving the details to the AWS documentation.
It shows the steps as:
- Step 1: Create a new key pair
- Step 2: Get information about the original instance and its root volume
- Step 3: Stop the original instance
- Step 4: Launch a temporary instance
- Step 5: Detach the root volume from the original instance and attach it to the temporary instance
- Step 6: Add the new public key to authorized_keys on the original volume mounted to the temporary instance
- Step 7: Unmount and detach the original volume from the temporary instance, and reattach it to the original instance
- Step 8: Connect to the original instance using the new key pair
- Step 9: Clean up
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