Sounds like you've never seen an actual hardware failure; you've only seen scheduled maintenance. You don't get any notice at all with host failures. You get an

Sounds like you've never seen an actual hardware failure; you've only seen scheduled maintenance. You don't get any notice at all with host failures. You get an email like this: "We have important news about your account (AWS Account ID: XXXX). EC2 has detected degradation of the underlying hardware hosting your Amazon EC2 instance (instance-ID: i-XXXX) in the us-east-1 region. Due to this degradation, your instance could already be unreachable. After 2018-12-28 19:00 UTC your instance, which has an EBS volume as the root device, will be stopped." The stop date is 2 weeks after the email is sent, but as the message states, the instance is likely already dead. It was already dead in this case. GCP will live migrate your instance to another host.