#24 Amazon EC2 Shutdown Behaviour and Termination Protection Tutorial

EC2 Hibernate

AWS  giving you the ability to launch EC2 instances, set them up as desired, hibernate them, and then bring them back to life when you need them. The hibernation process stores the in-memory state of the instance, along with its private and elastic IP addresses, allowing it to pick up exactly where it left off.

This feature is available today and you can use it on freshly launched M3, M4, M5, C3, C4, C5, R3, R4, and R5 instances running Amazon Linux 1 (support for Amazon Linux 2 is in the works and will be ready soon). It applies to On-Demand instances and instances running with Reserved Instance coverage.

Reference: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-hibernate-your-ec2-instances/