I'm out of guesses.
Nothing I am aware of could result in the symptoms you are seeing; which suggests that this is something unique to AWS VMs; and probably only they will solve it.
In reply to Re^5: Background proc requires ENTER keystroke on Windows 2012
by BrowserUk
in thread Background proc requires ENTER keystroke on Windows 2012
by stevieb
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