Amazon EC2 status checks now support reachability health of attached EBS volumes
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The article discusses a new feature added to Amazon EC2 status checks, which now allow monitoring the reachability and I/O operations of attached EBS volumes.
Specifically, the article covers:
- EC2 status checks can now directly monitor if attached EBS volumes are reachable and able to complete I/O operations
- This new status check can quickly detect attachment issues or volume impairments that may impact application performance
- These status checks can be integrated with Auto Scaling groups to monitor instance health and replace impacted instances for high availability
- Previously, EBS volume attachment health had to be monitored using a specific CloudWatch metric
- This feature is supported for all EC2 Nitro instances across all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
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