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056 EC2 Hibernate

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What Hibernate does:

  • In-memory state is preserved
  • Insatnce boot is much faster
  • RAM state is written to a file in root EBS
  • root EBS must be encrypted

Use case:

  • Long-running process
  • Services that take time to initialize

Good to know

  • RAM size must be less than 150GB
  • not supported for bare metal instances
  • root volume must be EBS, encrypted
  • Available for On-demand, Reserved and Spot
  • Max hibernate 60 days