How do I reset the administrator password on an EC2 Windows Instance?

[Music] [Applause] [Music] hello I'm Ryan a cloud support engineer here at the Adis office in Northern Virginia today I'm going to show you how to reset the administrator password for an Amazon elastic compute Cloud Windows instance let's get started after logging into the Eis Management console we can navigate to the Amazon ec2 console next we can go ahead and select instances we can create a temporary slh helper instance that is in the same availability Zone as the instance that needs the password reset or a running instance that can be connected by using RDP in the same availability Zone can be used for a demonstration purposes let's create a helper instance it's best practice to create a backup of the instance that requires the password reset by creating a snapshot or an Ami backup before making any changes to the original instance you should consider any changes that will occur when the instance is stopped for example if the instance doesn't have an elastic IP address allocated then the public IP will change as soon as the backup is completed go ahead and stop the instance by selecting the instance instance State stop instance when the instance is fully stopped navigate to the storage Tab and then select the root EBS volume the root EBS volume can be identified by the device name /dev sda1 now select the volume go to actions and choose detach after we refresh to verify that the volume state shows as available detach the root volume of the instance and attach it to the helper instance mentioned previously in the same availability Zone after the volume is attached as a secondary Drive connect to the helper instance by using RDP when you're connected to the instance we can go ahead and download E2 rescue from our Adis public documentation and then extract the folder we can now run the ec2 rescue application and go through the launch wizard select offline instance and make sure that the correct volume was provided by confirming the amount of storage and device name next choose diagnose and rescue to reset the administrator password now that the password is reset you can finish up using e to rescue and disconnect from the helper instance after disconnecting from the helper instance go ahead and attach the EBS root volume back to the original affected instance by stopping the helper instance the key thing to note here is to attach the Amazon EBS root volume with the device name as /dev sda1 finally start the original instance and confirm that the password was reset so now you know how to reset the administrator password for an ec2 Windows instance thanks for watching and happy cloud computing from all of us here at [Music] [Applause] [Music] AWS [Music]

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Length: 4min 35sec (275 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 16 2023