EC2 Windows instance stops automatically

Question

One of our EC2 windows (Windows 2022 Data Center Edition) instance randomly stops without any manual interference.

It's a **c6a.8xlarge** instance type running at **Mumbai location**. The server is used for RDP purpose. Whenever users complain they are kicked out of their sessions, we mostly see that it is in "Stopped" mode in the dashboard.

This is really impacting our production.

How do we resolve this issue?

Answer

I would find out who/what was stopping the instance. See this article to get this information from CloudTrail: [How do I use AWS CloudTrail to track API calls to my Amazon EC2 instances?](https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/cloudtrail-search-api-calls/).

EC2 Windows instance stops automatically

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