Instance scheduled for maintenance requires to be retired on 2023-05-10

Question

Hello, I received an email from AWS stating that one of my instances in us-east-1 region is scheduled for maintenance that requires the instance to be retired on 2023-05-10 (10:00 UTC).  The email "*What do I need to do?" section recommend that I stop and start the instance at any time before the retirement date and this will migrate the instance to a new host.

What I'm not clear is do I need to rebuild a new instance using a current instance type, or just a Stop & Start on my current c3.8xlarge instance? Will the stop & start keep my same instance type?

Thank you for the clarifications.

Accepted Answer

I am not sure how critical is your instance (Whether its for production  or some small PoC). Please go through AWS documentation for same https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance-retirement.html and raised a support  ticket for any doubt if its for some critical workload.

Answer

Despite being already expired, based on the documentation, stopping and restarting your current c3.8xlarge instance before the scheduled retirement date of 2023-05-10 would have been sufficient. This would migrate your instance to a new host without requiring you to rebuild the instance.

Instance scheduled for maintenance requires to be retired on 2023-05-10

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