No ability to get the decrypted Windows password

[palfrey]

This is for example doable in the Powershell bindings (using Get-EC2PasswordData), but not in the Ruby SDK. Using EC2.client.get_password_data can be used to get the encrypted password, but there's no option to decrypt it, even if you've got the PEM...

[palfrey]

Here's how to do it in your own code BTW

# pemPath is the file path of your PEM file
# instance is an AWS::EC2::Instance
ec2 = AWS::EC2.new
encrypted_password = ec2.client.get_password_data(:instance_id => instance.instance_id).password_data
private_key = OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.new(File.read(pemPath))
decoded = Base64.decode64(encrypted_password)
password = private_key.private_decrypt(decoded)

[trevorrowe]

Sorry for the very slow response. We are not currently doing feature work on the v1 Ruby SDK. We do accept pull requests, but we are currently focused on the v2 SDK (https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-core-ruby). I do think this could be a helpful feature to add.