How can I access the console of a booting EC2 instance in AWS?
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

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Step 2: Screenshot of "System Log"

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Step 3: Screenshot of "instance's console"

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