You can describe the key pairs that you stored in Amazon EC2. You can also retrieve the public key material and identify the public key that was specified at launch.

Some Amazon EC2 instances support solid state drives (SSD) to deliver high random I/O performance.

Learn how Amazon EC2 provides your instances with public and private IP addresses and DNS hostnames.

You can delete a key pair, which removes the public key that is stored in Amazon EC2. Deleting a key pair does not delete the matching private key.

To verify the fingerprint of your key pair, compare the fingerprint displayed on the Key pairs page in the Amazon EC2 console, or returned by the describe-key-pairs command, with the fingerprint that you generate using the private key on your local computer. These fingerprints should match.

Use the Amazon EC2 serial console to diagnose and troubleshoot possible issues with your Amazon EC2 Linux and Windows instances.

To help categorize and manage the key pairs that you've either created using Amazon EC2 or imported to Amazon EC2, you can tag them with custom metadata. For more information about how tags work, see .

Connect to your instance using EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint.

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Configure your Amazon EC2 Windows AMI for faster launching, using pre-provisioned snapshots with Windows fast launch.