Thread: How often do EC2 instances crash/vanish, and what happens when they do?
Friday, December 25th, 2009http://solutions.amazonwebservices.com/connect/message.jspa?messageID=133726
I’m considering moving some of the web sites I run to EC2, but I haven’t yet managed to find out information about how often the virtual machines crash/vanish/go down etc…
Also, what happens when they do? Does the machine get automatically restarted with the same virtual hard disk with data as-saved before the crash/vanish happens?
What about mapped ips, etc?
As you can tell, I’m pretty new at this stuff, but just trying to get a feel for how things work when virutal machines or their physical hosts crash, etc…





