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ec2-reboot-instances

From Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-08-15

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ec2-reboot-instances

Description

Requests a reboot of one or more instances. This operation is asynchronous; it only queues a request to reboot the specified instance(s). The operation will succeed if the instances are valid and belong to you. Requests to reboot terminated instances are ignored.

[Note] Note

If a Linux/UNIX instance does not cleanly shut down within four minutes, Amazon EC2 will perform a hard reboot.

Syntax

ec2-reboot-instances instance_id [instance_id ...]

Options

Name Description Required

instance_id

One or more instance IDs.

Type: String

Default: None

Example: i-3ea74257

Yes

Output

The command returns a table that contains the following information:

  • This command displays no output on success

Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.

Examples

Example Request

This example reboots an instance.

PROMPT> ec2-reboot-instances &InstanceId.i-28a64341

ec2-run-instances
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