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I have activated ufw firewall in an EC2 ubuntu server 12.04 instance, but I forgot to allow access to port 22. Now I can't connect to the instance via ssh. This instance is EBS backed.
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If your instance is a managed instance in AWS Systems Manager, then use the AWSSupport-ResetAccess document to recover your lost key pair. AWSSupportResetAccess automatically generates and adds a new SSH (public/private) key pair using the EC2 Rescue for Linux tool on the specified EC2 instance.
When you use EC2Config or EC2Launch to reset a lost password, you must use its key pair to retrieve the administrator password. If you've lost the key pair, you can create an AMI of the existing instance, and then launch a new instance. You can then select a new key pair by following the instance launch wizard.
Amazon EC2 doesn't keep a copy of your private key; therefore, if you lose a private key, there is no way to recover it. If you lose the private key for an instance store-backed instance, you can't access the instance; you should terminate the instance and launch another instance using a new key pair.
Well, thanks to EBS there is a solution.
Now you firewall is disbled in your instance, so you can access it via ssh.
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