Attach an Amazon EC2 key pair to an AWS Backup restore of a VMware virtual machine
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This article provides a walkthrough for attaching an Amazon EC2 key pair to a restored VMware virtual machine after using AWS Backup to restore it.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Solution overview and prerequisites
- Steps to perform an EC2 instance restore from a VMware recovery point in AWS Backup
- Creating a new key pair and generating its public key
- Attaching the new key pair to the restored EC2 instance
- Registering the public key on the instance and connecting via SSH
- Cleaning up resources after completing the process
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