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I'm glad they added the ability to change the instance type. Previously you could stop the instance from the management console, and start it up again afterward

I'm glad they added the ability to change the instance type. Previously you could stop the instance from the management console, and start it up again afterwards, but you'd have to run `ec2-modify-instance-attribute` in between.

jeffbarr 16y ago
Happy to help. I should have said more about the idea of upshifting onto more powerful hardware but that slipped my mind.
- lurker19 16y ago
  Does stopping then resizing then starting an instance preserve local non-EBS data? Is it like a "portable hibernate image" of the system?
  - timrobinson 16y ago
    Stop = power off, so no, only EBS data is kept. When you start the instance again, the OS boots from scratch.
    - lurker19 16y ago
      Ah. A hibernate-to-EBS feature would be nice, so that an idle EC2 instance could be concerted from $/day to $/month when idle, for use cases (like mine) where I have installed a bunch of scripts and data on a single host that I would like to scale up to one big machine for burst jobs, hibernate over the weekend or when I am not running jobs, but otherwise be available for interactive access for script editing.
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