AWS ec2 documentation change

Service: ec2 · 2025-06-28 · Documentation low

File: ec2/latest/devguide/example_ec2_CreateKeyPair_section.md

Summary

Added PowerShell V5 example for creating key pairs with ASCII encoding requirement

Security assessment

Emphasizes proper ASCII encoding for valid private key generation, which is a security best practice but doesn't address a specific vulnerability

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diff --git a/ec2/latest/devguide/example_ec2_CreateKeyPair_section.md b/ec2/latest/devguide/example_ec2_CreateKeyPair_section.md
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+**Tools for PowerShell V5**
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+**Example 1: This example creates a key pair and captures the PEM-encoded RSA private key in a file with the specified name. When you are using PowerShell, the encoding must be set to ascii to generate a valid key. For more information, see Create, Display, and Delete Amazon EC2 Key Pairs (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-services-ec2-keypairs.html) in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide.**
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+    (New-EC2KeyPair -KeyName "my-key-pair").KeyMaterial | Out-File -Encoding ascii -FilePath C:\path\my-key-pair.pem
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+  * For API details, see [CreateKeyPair](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/powershell/v5/reference) in _AWS Tools for PowerShell Cmdlet Reference (V5)_. 
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