<story><title>Auto Recovery for Amazon EC2</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-auto-recovery-for-amazon-ec2/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AmazonWebServicesBlog+%28Amazon+Web+Services+Blog%29</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CarlHoerberg</author><text>Finally, it&amp;#x27;s crazy that they&amp;#x27;ve haven&amp;#x27;t implemented this earlier, and why isn&amp;#x27;t it enabled by default, like on GCE? We&amp;#x27;ve had for a long time an app that just polls the ec2 api and looks for impaired instances and then automatically restarts them. We have about 2-10 impaired&amp;#x2F;scheduled-for-reboot&amp;#x2F;on-deprecated hardware-instance per month so that app is quite a time-saver.</text></comment>
<story><title>Auto Recovery for Amazon EC2</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-auto-recovery-for-amazon-ec2/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AmazonWebServicesBlog+%28Amazon+Web+Services+Blog%29</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bmurphy1976</author><text>Please note that this is for EBS backed instances only.&lt;p&gt;If you want something similar for ephemeral instances, do what we do: min 1 max 1 auto scaling groups. We&amp;#x27;ve found that Amazon is pretty good at catching bad instances and terminating them, although on occasion we do have to terminate an instance manually.  The autoscaling group takes care of the rest.</text></comment>