Retrieves the encrypted administrator password for a running Windows instance.
ec2_get_password_data(InstanceId, DryRun)[required] The ID of the Windows instance.
Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without
actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have
the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation.
Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation.
svc$get_password_data( InstanceId = "string", DryRun = TRUE|FALSE )
The Windows password is generated at boot by the EC2Config service or
EC2Launch scripts (Windows Server 2016 and later). This usually only
happens the first time an instance is launched. For more information,
see
EC2Config
and
EC2Launch
in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.
For the EC2Config service, the password is not generated for rebundled
AMIs unless Ec2SetPassword is enabled before bundling.
The password is encrypted using the key pair that you specified when you launched the instance. You must provide the corresponding key pair file.
When you launch an instance, password generation and encryption may take a few minutes. If you try to retrieve the password before it's available, the output returns an empty string. We recommend that you wait up to 15 minutes after launching an instance before trying to retrieve the generated password.