Yeah, I’ve experienced several instance retirements. Most with a fair bit of warning, one a few minutes after the instance stopped responding. I haven’t gotten

Yeah, I’ve experienced several instance retirements. Most with a fair bit of warning, one a few minutes after the instance stopped responding. I haven’t gotten a retirement warning in several years, so it seems they're doing something to mitigate hardware failures, although my infrastructure is small enough it could just be luck. Plus Xen has live migrate now, so I assume AWS’s frankenxen would have it as well. There is indeed a brief interrupt, which is why I said they can’t be too aggressive with it. Anyways, I’m sure Amazon does what it can to power down machines, I just think they’re stuck leaving much the data center running because they can’t kick off running VMs.