Announcing static stability for Amazon EC2 instances backed by EC2 instance store on AWS Outposts

AWS Outposts now offers static stability for Amazon EC2 instances backed by EC2 instance store. This enables automatic recovery for workloads running on such EC2 instances from power failures or reboots, even when the connection to the parent AWS Region is temporarily unavailable. This means Outposts servers and Outposts racks can recover faster from power outages, minimizing downtime and data loss.

Outposts provides a consistent hybrid experience by bringing AWS services to customer premises and edge locations on fully managed AWS infrastructure. While Outposts typically runs connected to an AWS Region for resource management, access control, and software updates, the new static stability feature enables workloads running on EC2 instances backed by EC2 instance store to recover from power failures even when connectivity to the AWS Region is unavailable. Note that this capability is currently not available for EC2 instances backed by Amazon EBS volumes.

This capability is in all AWS Regions where Outposts is supported. Check out the Outposts servers FAQs page and the Outposts rack FAQs page for the full list of supported Regions.

To get started, no customer specific action is required. Static stability is now enabled for all EC2 instances backed by EC2 instance store.