Always Free Tier Instance Disappeared

Question

It looks like my one and only free tier instance has vaporised along with the elastic IP (which I have always ensured is attached to an instance to avoid charges).
It appears to have happened at the start of the month.

The only reason I can think of that might have caused this is that my credit card was cancelled and replaced with a different number last month.
I had not updated that info by the end of September.

Answer

Hello.

If your payment fails, your AWS account may be suspended, but there should be a grace period before it is suspended, so your EC2 account will not disappear until then.  
Have you tried switching EC2 to the region you created it in?  
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsconsolehelpdocs/latest/gsg/select-region.html

Also, check the CloudTrail event history and check things like "TerminateInstances".  
If you find an event, please check to see if it has been deleted by mistake.  
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/view-cloudtrail-events.html  
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Always Free Tier Instance Disappeared

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