AWS EC2 Instance Termination Protection not working under auto-scale IN
AWS EC2 Instance Termination Protection not working under auto-scale IN I have auto scaling group with 3 instances. I configure 1 specific Instance to termination protection = true. However when I modify my autoscaling rules. To the Desired Instance: 2 and Min Instance: 2. That instance above that I recently modified with termination protection still get terminated. Any thoughts? WHY do you wish to apply termination protection on Auto Scaling instances? That mostly defeats the purpose of using an Auto Scaling group. – John Rotenstein Jul 2 at 1:42 2 Answers 2 When you configure EC2 with auto scaling you should use an AMI that would have your golden config. Termination protection will be overwritten by auto scaling. What's your purpose to have an ins...