Login to Windows server on AWS

This post describes how to login to Windows server on AWS

 

 

 

Step 1: Login to AWS console

 

 

Step 2: Click on EC2

 

Step 3: Go to Instances

 

Step 4: Right click on instance and select Get windows password

 

 

 

Step 5: It will prompt for security key

 

 

Step 6: Copy content of certificate key which was downloaded at the time of Keypair creation

 

 



Step 7: It will show administrator password.  Note this password to login to server

 

 

Step 8: Note down public DNS name of server to access it

 

Step 9: Use RDP tool to access the instance launched on AWS

 

Step 10: Enter administrator password which we have obtained in earlier steps