Can't Terminate my EC2 Instance

Hello Colin,

I have checked your account and I can confirm that you are terminating the Instances correctly. After that action a new instance is actually re-created. It is not restarting.

The reason behind this behavior is an Auto Scaling group which is configured to always check and make sure that 1 EC2 instance is running. Therefore if an instance is terminated, the Auto Scaling group will launch a new one.

If this is not needed please delete the Auto Scaling group. You can follow this link: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/as-process-shutdown.html

Thank you,
VasosAWS