Use GetPasswordData with an AWS SDK or CLI - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Use GetPasswordData with an AWS SDK or CLI

The following code examples show how to use GetPasswordData.

CLI
AWS CLI

To get the encrypted password

This example gets the encrypted password.

Command:

<userinput>aws ec2 get-password-data --instance-id <replaceable>i-1234567890abcdef0</replaceable></userinput>

Output:

{
    "InstanceId": "i-1234567890abcdef0",
    "Timestamp": "2013-08-07T22:18:38.000Z",
    "PasswordData": "gSlJFq+VpcZXqy+iktxMF6NyxQ4qCrT4+gaOuNOenX1MmgXPTj7XEXAMPLE
UQ+YeFfb+L1U4C4AKv652Ux1iRB3CPTYP7WmU3TUnhsuBd+p6LVk7T2lKUml6OXbk6WPW1VYYm/TRPB1
e1DQ7PY4an/DgZT4mwcpRFigzhniQgDDeO1InvSDcwoUTwNs0Y1S8ouri2W4n5GNlriM3Q0AnNVelVz/
53TkDtxbNoU606M1gK9zUWSxqEgwvbV2j8c5rP0WCuaMWSFl4ziDu4bd7q+4RSyi8NUsVWnKZ4aEZffu
DPGzKrF5yLlf3etP2L4ZR6CvG7K1hx7VKOQVN32Dajw=="
}

To get the decrypted password

This example gets the decrypted password.

Command:

<userinput>aws ec2 get-password-data --instance-id  <replaceable>i-1234567890abcdef0</replaceable> --priv-launch-key C:\Keys\MyKeyPair.pem</userinput>

Output:

{
    "InstanceId": "i-1234567890abcdef0",
    "Timestamp": "2013-08-30T23:18:05.000Z",
    "PasswordData": "&ViJ652e*u"
}
PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This example decrypts the password that Amazon EC2 assigned to the Administrator account for the specified Windows instance. As a pem file was specified, the setting of the -Decrypt switch is automatically assumed.

Get-EC2PasswordData -InstanceId i-12345678 -PemFile C:\path\my-key-pair.pem

Output:

mYZ(PA9?C)Q

Example 2: (Windows PowerShell only) Inspects the instance to determine the name of the keypair used to launch the instance and then attempts to find the corresponding keypair data in the configuration store of the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. If the keypair data is found the password is decrypted.

Get-EC2PasswordData -InstanceId i-12345678 -Decrypt

Output:

mYZ(PA9?C)Q

Example 3: Returns the encrypted password data for the instance.

Get-EC2PasswordData -InstanceId i-12345678

Output:

iVz3BAK/WAXV.....dqt8WeMA==

  • For API details, see GetPasswordData in AWS Tools for PowerShell Cmdlet Reference.

For a complete list of AWS SDK developer guides and code examples, see Create Amazon EC2 resources using an AWS SDK. This topic also includes information about getting started and details about previous SDK versions.