Handy in an emergency, but only for Nitro instances and requires work in advance Tim Anderson Thu 1 Apr 2021 // 18:05 UTC Share Copy AWS has introduced the "interactive EC2 Serial Console", enabling troubleshooting of virtual machines when normal SSH access is not working, with one user gushing: "I have been waiting 10 years for this moment." The purpose of serial console access is to enable troubleshooting when an SSH connection is impossible, for example, because of an out-of-memory condition. "It provides a one-click, text-based access to an instances' serial port a...