EC2 Warning Signal Diagnostic Troubleshooter (Part 1)
Use the interactive troubleshooter below to identify your EC2 warning signal, review the verbatim warning, understand the target service, and note the consequence of ignoring.
🚨 Step 1: What specific error symptom are you experiencing?
Please click the most accurate description:
Quick Reference Table
| # | Signal Type | Verbatim Warning | Target | Consequence of Ignoring |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | caution | "Important Incorrect use of dd can easily destroy a volume's data. Be sure to follow precisely the example command below." | dd utility / Amazon EBS initialization | Easily destroy a volume's data |
| 2 | prohibition / deprecated | "DO NOT USE. RequestSpotFleet is legacy API with no planned investment." | RequestSpotFleet and RequestSpotInstances API | Legacy API with no planned investment |
| 3 | prohibition | "Spot Instances are not suitable for workloads that are inflexible, stateful, fault-intolerant, or tightly coupled between instance nodes. [...] We strongly warn against using Spot Instances for these workloads or attempting to fail-over to On-Demand Instances to handle interruptions." | Spot Instances / On-Demand fail-over | Consequence not stated |
| 4 | prohibition | "We strongly recommend against using the lowestPrice allocation strategy in combination with launch-before-terminate to avoid having replacement Spot Instances that are also at an elevated risk of interruption." | Spot Fleet lowestPrice allocation strategy with launch-before-terminate | Having replacement Spot Instances that are also at an elevated risk of interruption |