Posted On: Mar 19, 2020
Amazon EC2 can now hibernate EBS-backed Amazon EC2 T2 instances. You can now hibernate your newly launched instances running on T2 instance types. Hibernation provides you the convenience of pausing and resuming your workloads. Hibernation is just like closing and opening your laptop lid, your application will start right where it left off.
Hibernation saves effort in setting up the environment or applications all over again, and saves time by reducing the long startup time taken by applications. Using hibernate, you can maintain a fleet of pre-warmed instances that can get to a productive state faster without modifying your existing applications.
Hibernation is available for On-Demand and Reserved Instances running on M3, M4, M5, C3, C4, C5, R3, R4, R5, and T2 instances running Amazon Linux, Amazon Linux 2, Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 LTS and Windows Server 2012, 2012R2, 2016 and 2019. For Windows, Hibernation is supported for instances up to 16 GB of RAM. For other operating systems, Hibernation is supported for instances with less than 150 GB of RAM.
This feature is available through AWS CloudFormation, AWS Management Console, or through the AWS SDKs, AWS Tools for Powershell or the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). To learn more about hibernation, visit this blog. For information about enabling hibernation for your EC2 instances, visit our FAQs or technical documentation.