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How do I protect my data against accidental Amazon EC2 instance termination?
I want to know how to protect my data against accidental Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance termination. I also want to troubleshoot and collect more information about probable termination causes and behaviors.
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Activate termination protection
Termination protection prevents an EC2 instance from accidental termination. By default, Amazon EC2 deactivates this option for instances. To protect your instance from unintentional termination, activate termination protection.
Regularly back up your data
Take one or more of the following actions:
- Create regular snapshots of the instance's Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume.
- Use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager or AWS Backup to automate snapshot creation.
- Create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to capture the data on all the Amazon EBS volumes that you attached to the instance. You can also use the AMI to launch a new instance.
Recreate your instance or restore data from a terminated instance
If you backed up your instances, then use the backup to restore the terminated instance.
Troubleshoot termination behaviors to identify the causes of termination
Configuration issues can cause your instance to terminate immediately on startup. To identify and troubleshoot termination causes, see Troubleshoot Amazon EC2 instance termination issues and Why did Amazon EC2 unexpectedly terminate my instance?
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