Find interrupted Spot Instances

In the console, the Instances pane displays all instances, including Spot Instances. You can identify a Spot Instance from the spot value in the Instance lifecycle column. The Instance state column indicates whether the instance is pending, running, stopping, stopped, shutting-down, or terminated. For a hibernated Spot Instance, the instance state is stopped.

To find an interrupted Spot Instance (console)

1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Instances. In the top right corner, choose the settings icon ( ), and under Attribute columns, select Instance lifecycle. For Spot Instances, Instance lifecycle is spot.

   Alternatively, in the navigation pane, choose Spot Requests. You can see both Spot Instance requests and Spot Fleet requests. To view the IDs of the instances, select a Spot Instance request or a Spot Fleet request and choose the Instances tab. Choose an instance ID to display the instance in the Instances pane.

3. For each Spot Instance, you can view its state in the Instance State column.

To find interrupted Spot Instances (AWS CLI)

You can list your interrupted Spot Instances using the describe-instances command with the --filters parameter. To list only the instance IDs in the output, include the --query parameter.

aws ec2 describe-instances \
    --filters Name=instance-lifecycle,Values=spot Name=instance-state-name,Values=terminated,stopped \
    --query "Reservations[*].Instances[*].InstanceId"