Black Screen Again Trying to RDP Back Into an AWS M7i-flex EC2 instance

M7i instance worked fine

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Left a process running overnight on two EC2 instances. One was an M7i xlarge type instance. One was an M7i-flex large instance. Both running same type of process and not taxed as far as I can tell, but M7i has more memory.

Tried to log back into M7i-flex with RDP and can only get a black screen. The M7i seems to be working fine.

After writing the above text and waiting however long that took I saw the screen come back and the login window popped up but somehow it closed. I’m not sure if I did that or it shut down on its own.

I logged back in and got a completely black screen again but then after that last paragraph the window appeared and I had to enter the password a second time. Then I could get in.

When I login I can see that CPU is randomly maxed out even though Burp is running very, very slowly on the machine having issues.