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The administrator password for Windows instances is generated when an AMI is launched. Each Windows instance is assigned a unique password. The private key that is used to start the instance is required to retrieve and decrypt the administrator password.
To support this requirement, the Reservation Manager requires that the private key is stored using the dpmutil set ec2-private-keypair command. When the Reservation Manager detects that a Windows instance is running, it initiates an action to retrieve the password using the stored private key. The Windows administrator password is included in the email notification sent to the end user that requested the system.
The private key that is used when starting an instance is determined by the EC2 resource pool with which the new instance is associated.
Note: The Windows administrator password defined with the dpmutil set superuser command is not used for accessing Windows instances.
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