Data stored as EC2 instance store is lost when EC2 instance is stopped or terminated ?
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Hi Luckshas,
That is entirely under your control. 🙂
There is a big difference between stopping and termination. make sure that you read up on the impact for both ec2 instances with EBS storage and ec2 instances with ;instance storage’
– https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/instance-store-vs-ebs/
What you also need to do is read up on the default options offered by both the Console, and the CLI. Both can be explicitly changed.
– https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/deleteontermination-ebs/
– https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/opsworks/create-instance.html
🙂
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Rusty
Moderator & Coach
Yes.. There are 2 types of storage available for EC2 – EBS (Consistent storage) and Instance Store (Ephimeral). When the instance is stopped/terminated – Instance store will be lost (On re-boot it will be retained)
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/InstanceStorage.html