title: Amazon EC2 keypair recovery
body: <p>I need to know of any way to access a running instance in Amazon EC2.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>I DON'T have the original keypair ".pem" file</li>
  <li>I DO have access to the aws management console</li>
  <li>Terminating/rebooting is not feasible</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>the closest to my question I have found was <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2181691/on-amazon-ec2-is-it-possible-to-reassign-a-keypair-to-an-already-running-instance">this</a> but I hope things have changed since.</p>
  
  <p>is there any way to download that pem file or assign a new keypair?</p>