I am not able to stop or terminate the server

Question

Hi Team,

I am not able to stop or terminate my AWS instance. As it shows the error Modify it's 'disableApiStop' instance attribute and try again. I am not able to complete the action. Today i got a abbusive alert for that instance on my mail and tried to terminate the instance and getting the same error might be the server as been accquired by hackers, i don't have any issues in terminating it as it's test server and doesn't as any critical data.

Can somer suggest me on how get resolved from this issue.

Regards,
Jagadish

Answer

Hi Jagadish

I understand you want to stop/terminate your instance but you are unable to and receive an “disableApiStop” error. You instance has stop proctection enabled [1], to disable you need to select the instance and go to Actions > instance details > Change stop protection, for Stop protection, choose disable.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Stop_Start.html

Answer

I faced this issue, but the instance terminate protection was disabled already. What did work for me after I updated my cli tools to version "aws-cli/2.7.20 Python/3.9.11 Darwin/21.5.0 exe/x86_64 prompt/off" was:

```aws ec2 modify-instance-attribute --instance-id  --no-disable-api-stop```

I have a feeling this is a old/new console api incomatablity and wonder if I switched to old console that I might of had success turning it on/off there too.

"aws-cli/2.2.30 Python/3.8.8 Darwin/21.5.0 exe/x86_64 prompt/off" - did not work

I am not able to stop or terminate the server

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