I am facing a strange issue in which I lose the instance when I shut it down. I launched publicly available ami-ccb35ea5 for Centos and after running it for couple of hours I bought it down but issuing shutdown –h now command.
In the AWS Web Console, the instance went to terminated state and after few hours I was not even able to see it.
Not sure why the instances are getting disappeared.
Any help on this is highly appreciated.
Best Answer
Found the answer here:
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#What_is_the_difference_between_using_the_local_instance_store_and_Amazon_Elastic_Block_storage_for_the_root_device