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Instances with scheduled reboots are not rescheduled or manually rebooted

Description

AWS periodically schedules system maintenance that requires an EC2 instance to be rebooted or migrated. These events are scheduled and will occur automatically. We recommend you reschedule the event at a time convenient to you, or you manually reboot an instance and forego the scheduled event.

EBS-backed instances can safely be rebooted. Instance reboots at the default scheduled time are likely to cause some type of availability blip, depending on the particular instance.

🚧 Warning

Stopping or rebooting an instance-store-backed EC2 instance will cause the contents of the volume to be lost. Instance store volumes must be migrated to a new instance prior to being stopped.

See the AWS docs for a full description of the different types of scheduled maintenance.

Fix - Runtime

AWS Console

Viewing Scheduled Events

  1. Log in to the AWS Management Console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/.
  2. Navigate to the Amazon EC2 console.
  3. Choose Events from the navigation pane to view instances with scheduled events.

Rescheduling Events
To choose a new time for a scheduled event, perform the following steps. Note that not all event types can be rescheduled.

  1. Navigate to the Amazon EC2 console.
  2. Choose Events from the navigation pane to view instances with scheduled events.
  3. Filter and select one or more instances.
  4. Choose Actions -> Schedule event
  5. Select a new date and time prior to the event deadline, and click Save.

Rebooting an Instance
You can reboot an instance to remove the scheduled event. Note that only EBS-backed instances can be rebooted without data loss.

  1. Navigate to the AWS EC2 console.
  2. Navigate to the Instances page.
  3. Select the instance to reboot.
  4. Select Actions -> Instance state -> Reboot instance.

CLI Commands

View instances with instance-reboot or system-reboot events (add the --region argument if needed):

aws ec2 describe-instance-status
--filters Name=event.code,Values=instance-reboot,system-reboot

Schedule an event:

aws ec2 modify-instance-event-start-time
--instance-id i-1234567890abcdef0
--instance-event-id instance-event-0d59937288b749b32
--not-before 2019-03-25T10:00:00.000

Reboot an instance (warning: ensure data on non-EBS storage is backed up or migrated):
aws ec2 reboot-instances --instance-ids i-1234567890abcdef0