April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
8h 37m
English
When a Windows EC2 instance is booted up on AWS, the console of the instance displays messages that indicate the boot process. In some cases, there is no output and the user is unaware of whether the instance was booted up successfully or not.
To get the console output of the instance, go to Actions | Instance Settings | Get System Log:

All the windows AMIs (excluding Windows 2016) have an optional service called EC2Config service, which is started when the instance is booted. It performs certain tasks when the instance is started or stopped. If the console output is empty, it usually indicates a problem with the EC2Config ...