The fact that this server is on EC2 is irrelevant. SUSE and MySQL do not know this. Amazon cannot block anything, you have root access to the server.
You recover/change the root password the same as any server, with mysqladmin, or by starting mysqld with --skip-grant-tables while you make the change.
I know, this isn't a direct answer to your question, but I would recommend using the AWS Relational Database Service. Amazon will host a MySQL database for you and take care of all the setup, maintenance, scaling, backup, etc. aws.amazon.com/rds.
1 ...at the equivalent cost of several equivalent servers of your own each month. – Dan Grossman Aug 5 '11 at 2:24 Amazon RDS is expensive if you just want to run a small instance of mysql database. – Sundar Aug 5 '11 at 12:24.
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