Instance Statuses

Detailed information about each instance status

Instance statuses refer to the state each instance is currently in. These states are different from spot market bid states, which describe if you're trying to get spot instances at a certain limit price.

Pending

The instance is awaiting payment confirmation.

Confirmed

The instance has been paid for and will start its initialization sequence when the defined start time arrives.

Initializing

The instance is spinning up for the first time running it's cloud_init. Once this has finished, the status moves to STATUS_STARTING.

Starting

The instance has finished initializing and is checking if an ssh connection can be established. Once it is, the status gets promoted to STATUS_RUNNING.

Running

The instance is up and running. You should be able to ssh into and distribute work across this instance.

Stopped

The instance is paused but can be started again.

Terminated

The instance has stopped running and is no longer accessible.

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