aws

I recently had a student ask me “what’s up with 2/2 checks passed” message on EC2 dashboard of AWS console. Great question, here’s the answer. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a virtual server offering in Amazon Web Services (AWS). Each EC2 server is known as an instance. An EC2 instance goes through two status checks at startup, then continuously performed every minute afterwards. The automated status checks allow engineers to quickly determine whether Amazon EC2 has detected any problems that might prevent the EC2 instance from running properly. The two status checks are known as a system check and a instance check. There’s a “Status Check” tab for each EC2 instance – you can access it by simply selecting the instance -> navigating to the details -> selecting status check tab. You can also refer to the image below for an example.