Windows – Remote Desktop to Amazon EC2 Instance

If your upload speed is generally pretty good, then it looks to be a slow upload to amazon, so using any sort of third party in the middle my help your speed, say uploading to and FTP site, then downloading from Amazon, which should be quicker than upload. Yes it involves an extra step, but it may make it quicker in the long run.

If your trying to upload Microsoft media, if you have an MSDN or Technet subscription maybe you could download it from there?

I had been working away, trying to resolve this problem for the last hour and a half before I posted on SF and finally I figured out the issue!

The default password in cleartext had a 'c' in it, which when viewed in notepad, looked like an UPPERCASE 'C' to me... and I had been trying that all this while!

Moreover Remote Desktop in Windows doesn't seem to allow copy-pasting username/passwords anymore, so that definitely made matters much worse for me!