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I spun up a community Windows AMI on Amazon EC2, but it seems like I can't get a password into the instance. Amazon documentation talks about how to create the AMI properly in order to be able to give people passwords, but it's obvious that these particular instances were not created with the best practices.

Is there a workaround or a well known community password or something?

What am I missing?

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I am not a Windows person (so perhaps this is Linux specific) - but AMIs typically use keypairs that are generated specifically for the user launching the instance (otherwise everyone would have your initial password). As per the documentation: "For administrator access to a Windows instance via a Remote Desktop Client, you use the private key in an API call to retrieve and decrypt the initial administrator password. You then use that administrator password to access the instance." – cyberx86 Jan 24 at 2:02
Thanks! I tried that and Windows doesn't give me the password. – mikebz Jan 25 at 3:02
Amazon details the process here - if you don't have success with that, perhaps post the ID of the AMI, version of Windows, etc. and someone more familiar with it will help you out. – cyberx86 Jan 25 at 3:09
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