EC2 instance shutting down for more than 2 days

Question

I have an instance that has been stuck in shutting down state for a few days:  
  
i-060b2cf59593c4573  
us-east-1a  
  
How can I finally end it and free its resources?  
  
Thanks,  
John.

AWS-User-3892169 · Accepted Answer

Hi John,  
  
I am sorry to hear about the issues that you had been experiencing with your instance. I see that the instance has terminated in the meantime. Please let us know if you need any further help.  
  
Regards,  
awstomas

IFGeneral · Answer

You should be able to select it on the console even if it still says "Stopping" and select the Stop action again, this time it should have a force.  
  
If for some reason this doesn't work, you can issue it from the AWS CLI:

```
aws --region  ec2 stop-instances --instance-ids  --force
```

added {code} md

EC2 instance shutting down for more than 2 days

Relevant content