AWS Lightsail Maintenance

Question

We receive an email for lightsail maintenance as below. How do we update the schedule maintenance window as we could not afford to reboot at below times.

We already start and stop lightsail instance as advice in other post where the instance may require hardware maintenance and if start/stop earlier, below maintenance will not affect.

https://repost.aws/questions/QURJrmxf21TMqRI5qrkS0B8A/how-frequently-should-i-expect-scheduled-maintenance-for-amazon-lightsail-instances

Do we need to take any further action and how do we ensure that instance will not go into maintenance for below schedule ?

Dear Amazon Lightsail Customer,

One or more of your Amazon Lightsail instances is scheduled for maintenance in a 2 hour window starting on Mon, 23 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT.
Maintenance activity will result in the following Lightsail instance(s) in the ap-southeast-2 region to be unavailable and then rebooted:

Accepted Answer

Hello,

When AWS detects failure of the underlying host for an instance, it schedules a maintenance and will inform regarding the same to the customers beforehand so that appropriate actions can be taken by the customers. Generally, stopping and starting the instance during your off business hours will migrate the instance to another healthy hardware.

As a stop/start is done, the instance will be migrated to a healthy hardware, maintenance will be marked as completed and it will not be rebooted during the specified timeframe.

For more details on maintenance, you can refer to the following link.

- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/monitoring-instances-status-check_sched.html

Answer

As you already done the instance stop and start, AWS will not do reboot during the mentioned timeframe.

AWS Lightsail Maintenance

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