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Expensive GPU EC2 instances consistently take a long time to terminate after power down
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Hi,
e.g.
i-09458427c9b51b6f9 or i-07a81d23b834d67a3 which were both g3s.xlarge was stuck for about 10 mins in shutting-down, after "power down" can be seen in the serial console.
Power down is the last thing that the kernel logs - so by this point all the various system scripts had completed. I think perhaps there might be an issue in the virtualization layer, as it shouldn't take this long to recognise that the kernel has terminated. These 10 unusable minutes are billable - so its a fairly expensive bug - at least $0.12 per instance (if using on-demand pricing)
Thanks! - I had read that page - but didn't see that line at all. It is still kind of a problem though - as instances in shutting-down do still take up instance quota, so it would be good to understand what takes so long.
Thanks! - I had read that page - but didn't see that line at all. It is still kind of a problem though - as instances in shutting-down do still take up instance quota, so it would be good to understand what takes so long.
AWS Support should be able to help with answering why it takes time. But you do have the option to increase quota limits
Having similar issue and posted it here: https://repost.aws/questions/QUVlOmxDjLRvCtEyw4u_RESA/slow-shutdown-for-windows2025-in-g4-instance