title: EC2 Key Pair Change
body: <p>I have seen several questions and answers about changing the EC2 key pair for a running instance. However I am a complete AWS newbie at this point and I can easily stop the running instance and restart it. That's not a problem in our situation.</p>
  
  <p>Is it possible to stop a running EC2 instance and somehow change the key pair and then start it again on an EBS-backed instance? We are also using an elastic IP on this instance so I can't see any downside of stopping the instance and restarting, but most discussions of changing the key pair assume that restarting an instance is difficult.</p>
  
  <p>I'm not an ops person, I'm trying to get up to speed after our recent EC2 person has left the company.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance!</p>