# EC2 Wowza Server Terminated Automatically

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/ec2-wowza-server-terminated-automatically/37125>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [April 25, 2014, 8:05am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/ec2-wowza-server-terminated-automatically/37125 "2014-04-25T08:05:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Dan\_Burkett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@Dan\_Burkett](https://community.wowza.com/u/Dan_Burkett)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 8:05am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/ec2-wowza-server-terminated-automatically/37125/1 "2014-04-25T08:05:17Z")

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Hi,

I have been preparing an EC2 Wowza server for a production deployment in the Sydney region using the Wowza AMI. I came in this morning to find that my instance was terminated automatically. Since this is instance store, I have lost all of the setup and configuration that I had been working on. In the EC2 console, the reason statement is:

State transition reason

Server.ScheduledRetirement: Terminated due to scheduled retirement

Why did this happen?

Thanks,

Dan

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**Author:** ![Dan\_Burkett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@Dan\_Burkett](https://community.wowza.com/u/Dan_Burkett)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 8:52am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/ec2-wowza-server-terminated-automatically/37125/2 "2014-04-25T08:52:20Z")

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Hi,

It looks like it was an underlying hardware failure in Amazon. From Amazon support:

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Thanks for contacting AWS support. An instance is scheduled to be retired when AWS detects irreparable failure of the underlying hardware hosting the instance. You can read more below.

[http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance-retirement.html](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance-retirement.html)

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Thanks,

Dan