Answers: <h3>Background</h3>
  
  <p>When using cloud services such as AWS or Azure your ability to access the console of booting instances is typically restricted to a read-only type of interaction. </p>
  
  <p>AWS does provide tools, so you just need to adjust your approach, if you're expecting to drop to single user mode or watch a booting system on a console.</p>
  
  <p>For example, in the EC2 services area of AWS you can select a EC2 instance and then under the actions menu select either:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Get System Log</li>
  <li>Get Instance Screenshot</li>
  </ul>
  
  <h3>Example</h3>
  
  <strong>Step 1: Screenshot of actions menu</strong>
  
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  <strong>Step 2: Screenshot of "System Log"</strong>
  
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  <strong>Step 3: Screenshot of "instance's console"</strong>
  
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Body: <p>I'm new to AWS and am looking for a way to access my EC2's console so I can triage issues such:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>boot to single user mode</li>
  <li>view console output as system boots</li>
  <li>gain console access to debug GRUB issues</li>
  </ul>
  
Tags: <amazon-web-services><amazon-ec2><linux>
Title: How can I access the console of a booting EC2 instance in AWS?
UserDisplayName: slm
ThreadText: # How can I access the console of a booting EC2 instance in AWS?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-03-21)
  
  I'm new to AWS and am looking for a way to access my EC2's console so I can triage issues such:
  
  * boot to single user mode
  * view console output as system boots
  * gain console access to debug GRUB issues
  
  **Tags:** amazon-web-services, amazon-ec2, linux
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_0 on 2019-03-21. Score: 2 | Accepted answer
  
  ### Background
  
  When using cloud services such as AWS or Azure your ability to access the console of booting instances is typically restricted to a read-only type of interaction.
  
  AWS does provide tools, so you just need to adjust your approach, if you're expecting to drop to single user mode or watch a booting system on a console.
  
  For example, in the EC2 services area of AWS you can select a EC2 instance and then under the actions menu select either:
  
  * Get System Log
  * Get Instance Screenshot
  
  ### Example
  
  **Step 1: Screenshot of actions menu**
  
  [![ss#1](https://i.sstatic.net/CR8Bg.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/CR8Bg.png)
  
  **Step 2: Screenshot of "System Log"**
  
  [![ss#2](https://i.sstatic.net/SF1NB.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/SF1NB.png)
  
  **Step 3: Screenshot of "instance's console"**
  
  [![ss#3](https://i.sstatic.net/fYFsr.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/fYFsr.png)
  
  
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