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Re:Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from the... by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday July 21, 2023 @12:06PM (#36815526)
When does AWS delete instances? Migrate, sure, and yes, local storage is supposed to be treated as disposable for that reason, but AFAIK only spot instances should be able to be destroyed outright.
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Re:Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from the... by TheDong on Friday July 21, 2023 @12:12PM (#36815597)
To quote from their docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance...

> If your instance root device is an instance store volume, the instance is terminated, and cannot be used again.

See also the aws "Dedicated Hosts" and "Mac Instances". Those also have similar termination behavior.

The majority of my instances lost are from the instance store thing.

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Re:Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from the... by yencabulator on Friday July 21, 2023 @05:27PM (#36820037)
The underlying problem is that Fly doesn't provide non-local, less-eager-to-disappear, volumes.
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