Find interrupted Spot Instances - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Find interrupted Spot Instances

When you describe your EC2 instances, the results include your Spot Instances. The instance lifecycle of a Spot Instance is spot. The instance state of a Spot Instance is either stopped or terminated, depending on the interruption behavior that you configured. For a hibernated Spot Instance, the instance state is stopped.

For additional details about the reason for the interruption, check the Spot request status code. For more information, see Get the status of a Spot Instance request.

Console
To find an interrupted Spot Instance

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/ec2/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Instances.

  3. Apply the following filter: Instance lifecycle=spot.

  4. Apply the Instance state=stopped or Instance state=terminated filter depending on the interruption behavior that you configured.

  5. For each Spot Instance, on the Details tab, under Instance details, find State transition message. The following codes indicate that the Spot Instance was interrupted.

    • Server.SpotInstanceShutdown

    • Server.SpotInstanceTermination

Amazon CLI
To find interrupted Spot Instances

Use the describe-instances command with the --filters option. To list only the instance IDs in the output, include the --query option.

If the interruption behavior is to terminate the Spot Instances, use the following example:

aws ec2 describe-instances \
    --filters Name=instance-lifecycle,Values=spot \
              Name=instance-state-name,Values=terminated \
              Name=state-reason-code,Values=Server.SpotInstanceTermination \
    --query "Reservations[*].Instances[*].InstanceId"

If the interruption behavior is to stop the Spot Instances, use the following example:

aws ec2 describe-instances \
    --filters Name=instance-lifecycle,Values=spot \
              Name=instance-state-name,Values=stopped \
              Name=state-reason-code,Values=Server.SpotInstanceShutdown \
    --query "Reservations[*].Instances[*].InstanceId"
PowerShell
To find interrupted Spot Instances

Use the Get-EC2Instance cmdlet.

If the interruption behavior is to terminate the Spot Instances, use the following example:

(Get-EC2Instance `
    -Filter @{Key="instance-lifecycle"; Values="spot"} `
            @{Key="instance-state-name"; Values="terminated"} `
            @{Key="state-reason-code"; Values="Server.SpotInstanceTermination"}).Instances.InstanceId

If the interruption behavior is to stop the Spot Instances, use the following example:

(Get-EC2Instance `
    -Filter @{Key="instance-lifecycle"; Values="spot"} `
            @{Key="instance-state-name"; Values="stopped"} `
            @{Key="state-reason-code"; Values="Server.SpotInstanceTermination"}).Instances.InstanceId