A new EC2 instance is created after termination of the only instance

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For some reasons when I try to terminate the only EC2 instance running in my account, it is automatically creating a new running instance. It marks old instance as terminated.

As an example, currently I marked the only running EC2 instance - i-00fb951a8af2f3373, as terminated however on refreshing the page it created another EC2 instance - i-0ee89a01c6abbda45, with running status.

Any ideas on how can terminate the instance without automatically creating a new one?

asked 4 years ago1091 views
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Hello,

It would appear that your instance is part of an Auto Scaling Group. When the Auto Scaling Group detects that your instance has failed a health check indicating it has been stopped or failed the health check it will create a new instance in its place.

If you do not need the Auto Scaling Group you can delete it and this will prevent new instances being created in its place.

-- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/what-is-amazon-ec2-auto-scaling.html

Deleting an Auto Scaling Group
-- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/as-process-shutdown.html

answered 4 years ago

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