Start a hibernated Amazon EC2 instance - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Start a hibernated Amazon EC2 instance

Start a hibernated instance by starting it in the same way that you would start a stopped instance.

For Spot Instances, if Amazon EC2 hibernated the instance, then only Amazon EC2 can resume it. You can only resume a hibernated Spot Instance if you hibernated it. Spot Instances can only be resumed if capacity is available and the Spot price is less than or equal to your specified maximum price.

Console
To start a hibernated instance

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

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Instances.

  3. Select a hibernated instance, and choose Instance state, Start instance. It can take a few minutes for the instance to enter the running state. During this time, the instance status checks show the instance in a failed state until the instance has started.

AWS CLI
To start a hibernated instance

Use the start-instances command.

aws ec2 start-instances --instance-ids i-1234567890abcdef0
PowerShell
To start a hibernated instance

Use the Start-EC2Instance cmdlet.

Start-EC2Instance -InstanceId i-1234567890abcdef0