Google Cloud also provides read/write serial ports over SSH: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/interacting-with-serial-console https://cloud.googl

Google Cloud also provides read/write serial ports over SSH: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/interacting-with-serial-console https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/interacting-... -- but I think AWS still doesn't. One thing I've ran into was root not having a password since the cloud images are typically SSH key auth only. That was annoying when trying to fix something simple like iptables or entering maintenance mode for a disk check.