A company has lost the private key for an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)-backed Amazon EC2 instance, and a security engineer needs to regain access to the instance. Which two of the following steps, when combined, will effectively allow the engineer to regain access to the instance?

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Stop the instance. Detach the root volume. Generate a new key pair.

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Keep the instance running. Detach the root volume. Generate a new key pair.

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C

When the volume is detached from the original instance, attach the volume to another instance as a data volume. Modify the authorized_keys file with a new public key. Move the volume back to the original instance. Start the instance._

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When the volume is detached from the original instance, attach the volume to another instance as a data volume. Modify the authorized_keys file with a new private key. Move the volume back to the original instance. Start the instance._

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When the volume is detached from the original instance, attach the volume to another instance as a data volume. Modify the authorized_keys file with a new public key. Move the volume back to the original instance that is running._

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A company has lost the private key for an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)-backed Amazon EC2 instance, and a security engineer needs to regain access to the instance. Which two of the following steps, when combined, will effectively allow the engineer to regain access to the instance?