EC2 Instance Crashes and need to restart from terminal
I have an amazon ec2 instance that I usually ssh into using terminal. I was making some changes and my terminal froze. So, I closed terminal and tried to ssh again. But, I am getting no response.

I _think_ that the instance has crashed and I need to restart, but I have no idea how to do this. Problem is: I don't have access to the instance online because the username and password belongs to someone else on my team (who I currently can't contact, out of country).

How can I restart the server from terminal? I tried downloading the Amazon EC2 API Tools, but without setup instructions, I'm lost (I tried these: http://linuxsysadminblog.com/2009/06/howto-get-started-with-amazon-ec2-api-tools/ but got stuck on private key. I only have one pem file?)

Thanks.

EC2 Instance Crashes and need to restart from terminal
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I have an amazon ec2 instance that I usually ssh into using terminal. I was making some changes and my terminal froze. So, I closed terminal and tried to ssh again. But, I am getting no response.

I _think_ that the instance has crashed and I need to restart, but I have no idea how to do this. Problem is: I don't have access to the instance online because the username and password belongs to someone else on my team (who I currently can't contact, out of country).

How can I restart the server from terminal? I tried downloading the Amazon EC2 API Tools, but without setup instructions, I'm lost (I tried these: http://linuxsysadminblog.com/2009/06/howto-get-started-with-amazon-ec2-api-tools/ but got stuck on private key. I only have one pem file?)

Thanks.
