My instance has been running smoothly for about 2 weeks, but yesterday I think I managed to break something during development of my application (although I just played around with mysql)..
Today when I tried access the server it was very slow, so I checked the instance monitoring log which, to my surprise, showed the CPU maxed out 100% the last 24 hours.
So I restarted the instance, was able to login again with SSH. But it was still very slow, so I restarted it again. And since then I’ve kept getting timeout errors when I try to access with SSH.
I’ve also tried to create an ami of my instance and launching a new one based on that ami, but same connection problem occurs.
I really need to access the files on the server. Is it possible to download the AMI and mount it locally? Or in any way access the files if I can’t SSH in to the server?
The process I describe in this article could be used to get files off of an EBS boot instance that is having troubles:
If you’re running an instance-store instance, you’re going to have more difficulty.