AWS Console Password

Rest assured, it will not affect you.

Of course, be careful to avoid making a mistake in your password and lose the ability to log in to the console.

Changing the root password in the AWS Management Console does not directly affect your EC2 instance, keys, or security groups. The root password in the AWS Management Console is for accessing your AWS account and managing your AWS resources, such as creating or modifying EC2 instances, managing S3 buckets, etc.

Your EC2 instance, keys, and security groups are managed separately from your AWS account credentials. Changing the root password won't impact the configurations or settings of your EC2 instance unless you're using that root password specifically for something within the instance itself.

For instance, if you've set up an application or service on your EC2 instance that uses your AWS account credentials (root or IAM user credentials) for authentication, then changing the root password could potentially impact those services. However, it's generally not a recommended practice to use your root account credentials within EC2 instances for such purposes.

We strongly recommend you don’t access the AWS account root user unless you have a task that requires root user credentials. You need to secure your root user credentials and your account recovery mechanisms to help ensure you don’t expose your highly privileged credentials for unauthorized use.

Instead of accessing the root user, create an administrative user for everyday tasks.

• For a single, standalone AWS account, see Create an administrative user: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/getting-set-up.html#create-an-admin
• For multiple AWS accounts managed through AWS Organizations, see Set up AWS account access for an IAM Identity Center administrative user: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/userguide/get-started-assign-account-access-admin-user.html