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I suppose this isn't much of a surprise, but it's kinda sorta pointless for Windows instances. I was hoping it would be something, but it's just a dump of the
by banana_giraffe 6y ago
I suppose this isn't much of a surprise, but it's kinda sorta pointless for Windows instances. I was hoping it would be something, but it's just a dump of the standard Windows system log output.
And adding to the fun, watching it on an initial instance bootup seems to block the process AWS uses to grab the encrypted password out of the log. So, it's not useful, and makes the instance a bit hard to remote into.
- my123 6y agoYou can enable the SAC for Windows. Then, you can have a command prompt too over serial.
- banana_giraffe 6y agoFair enough, found the documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/troubleshooting-sac.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/troub... It does require connecting to the working instance first and setting things up, which is less than ideal, but I get why it's the case. I guess I'm off to configure the Windows instances I care about, so I have a way to troubleshoot things in the future.