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Re:Hardware Failure on EC2 by ncsurfus on Saturday April 17, 2021 @04:16PM (#26847102)
The instance isn’t terminated (gone). It’s either shutdown or rebooted depending on the type of hardware failure.
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Re:Hardware Failure on EC2 by bdcravens on Saturday April 17, 2021 @05:51PM (#26847752)
It doesn't get transferred to a different physical instance, right?
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Re:Hardware Failure on EC2 by christrotman on Saturday April 17, 2021 @08:49PM (#26848814)
I have never seen it migrated to a different instance type, but it would be running on a different physical server.
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Re:Hardware Failure on EC2 by NikolaeVarius on Saturday April 17, 2021 @06:26PM (#26847983)
Why would anyone even care
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Re:Hardware Failure on EC2 by bdcravens on Saturday April 17, 2021 @07:49PM (#26848469)
I think many would make assumptions about the state of the instance and their application, which are likely to be wrong.
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Re:Hardware Failure on EC2 by ncsurfus on Monday April 19, 2021 @09:13PM (#26869705)
Some virtualization platforms support live migrations (hyper-v and ESXi), but this isn’t something AWS supports (afaik). Anytime your instance is stopped/started or rebooted then you may end up on a different physical host.
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