No I did not got any notification. It was EBS backed instance, since I had snapshot, it does not took much time to recreate a new instance. Beside that I had a

No I did not got any notification. It was EBS backed instance, since I had snapshot, it does not took much time to recreate a new instance. Beside that I had another instance behind ELB to avoid downtime. If is fair to expect some notification for scheduled retirement.