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Why did Amazon EC2 interrupt my Spot Instance?
I launched a Spot Instance but I can't find it in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) console.
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Understand why Amazon EC2 interrupted your Spot Instance
Amazon EC2 can interrupt your Spot Instance for multiple reasons. You receive a Spot Instance interruption notice two minutes before Amazon EC2 interrupts the Spot Instance.
By default, Amazon EC2 terminates Spot Instances when they're interrupted. However, when you create the Spot instance, you can change the interruption behavior so that Amazon EC2 stops or hibernates interrupted Spot instances.
To determine why Amazon EC2 interrupted your Spot Instance, get the request status of the Spot Instance or find your interrupted Spot Instance. For a complete list of reason codes, see Spot request status codes.
Restore your Spot Instance
When Amazon EC2 terminates an instance, it also deletes the data on the instance store volumes. By default, Amazon EC2 also deletes the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) root volume. You can't automatically recover a terminated instance.
To restore a Spot Instance, take one of the following actions:
- When you create a Spot Instance request, change the default Spot Instance interruption behavior from Terminate to Hibernate or Stop. This setting makes sure that Amazon EC2 doesn't terminate the instance, but instead hibernates or stops it.
- Use Spot Instance interruption notices to work around potential interruptions.
- Set the DeleteOnTermination attribute for your Amazon EBS volumes to False to preserve the volume data when your instance terminates. You can use the preserved volumes to create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and launch a new instance.
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