Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
User Guide (API Version 2013-02-01)
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Planning for Interruptions

Because Spot Instances can terminate at any time, applications that run on Spot Instances must terminate cleanly. Although we attempt to cleanly terminate your instances, your application should be prepared to deal with an immediate shutdown.

To test your application, launch and terminate it as an On-Demand instance.

Quick Look: Managing Interruptions Video

The following video shows how some customers manage the interruption of their Spot instances.

For more information about strategies to manage interruptions, go to the following sections: