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Plan for Interruptions
Because Spot Instances can terminate at any time, applications that run on Spot Instances must terminate cleanly. Although we attempt to cleanly terminate your instances, your application should be prepared to deal with an immediate shutdown.
To test your application, launch and terminate it as an on-demand instance.
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Although Spot Instances can use Amazon EBS-backed AMIs, be aware that the EBS-backed AMIs don't support Stop/Start. In other words, you can't stop and start Spot Instances launched from an AMI with an Amazon EBS root device. |
Quick Look: Managing Interruptions Video
The following video shows how some customers manage the interruption of their Spot instances.
For more information about strategies to manage interruptions, go to the following sections:
