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**To get the encrypted password**
This example gets the encrypted password.
Command::
aws ec2 get-password-data --instance-id i-1234567890abcdef0
Output::
{
"InstanceId": "i-1234567890abcdef0",
"Timestamp": "2013-08-07T22:18:38.000Z",
"PasswordData": "gSlJFq+VpcZXqy+iktxMF6NyxQ4qCrT4+gaOuNOenX1MmgXPTj7XEXAMPLE
UQ+YeFfb+L1U4C4AKv652Ux1iRB3CPTYP7WmU3TUnhsuBd+p6LVk7T2lKUml6OXbk6WPW1VYYm/TRPB1
e1DQ7PY4an/DgZT4mwcpRFigzhniQgDDeO1InvSDcwoUTwNs0Y1S8ouri2W4n5GNlriM3Q0AnNVelVz/
53TkDtxbNoU606M1gK9zUWSxqEgwvbV2j8c5rP0WCuaMWSFl4ziDu4bd7q+4RSyi8NUsVWnKZ4aEZffu
DPGzKrF5yLlf3etP2L4ZR6CvG7K1hx7VKOQVN32Dajw=="
}
**To get the decrypted password**
This example gets the decrypted password.
Command::
aws ec2 get-password-data --instance-id i-1234567890abcdef0 --priv-launch-key C:\Keys\MyKeyPair.pem
Output::
{
"InstanceId": "i-1234567890abcdef0",
"Timestamp": "2013-08-30T23:18:05.000Z",
"PasswordData": "&ViJ652e*u"
}