Amazon_EC2_25
Identify and re-launch any running AWS EC2 instances older than 180 days in order to ensure their reliability. An EC2 instance is not supposed to run indefinitely in the cloud and having too old instances within your AWS your account could increase the risk of potential issues.
1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console.
2. Navigate to EC2 dashboard.
3. In the left navigation panel, under INSTANCES section, choose Instances.
4. Select the running EC2 instance that you want to restart.
5. Click on the Actions dropdown button from the dashboard top menu, select Instance State and click Stop.
6. In the Stop Instances dialog box, review the details and click Yes, Stop to confirm the action. The instance status will change from running to stopping to stopped.
7. Click again on the Actions dropdown button, select Instance State and click Start to restart the instance.
8. Inside the Start Instances dialog box, review the details and click Yes, Start to confirm the action. The instance status will change from stopped to pending to running.
Note : This activity will incur downtime for the application(s) running on the selected instance. If the instance is currently used in production, schedule this process during your next maintenance window.
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