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May 18, 2017 at 18:49 comment added Nadreck This is such awful behaviour that I'd lean towards sabotage as an explanation. There's no legitimate reason to reboot like this. Also, if this was something AWS specific I'd say that this question should really be over in <i>ServerFault</i> but unless you're hooked up to some daffy AWS<i>Cloud Watch</i> ecology I don't think that that's the case here. More likely some problem that could happen to any nix system hence my OS oriented answer here.
May 18, 2017 at 18:43 answer added Nadreck timeline score: 0
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Mar 30, 2017 at 18:41 comment added Archemar have a look at my question about disabling ctrl-alt-del : unix.stackexchange.com/questions/153902/… (just in case something is seding CAD continously)
Mar 30, 2017 at 17:36 comment added Anton Good thought, I've posted to the AWS forums to learn more. I haven't restarted the instance through the management console in a while, and I don't think I opted into any special monitoring software unless there's something they force on you even when you launch a barebones instance.
Mar 30, 2017 at 17:29 comment added derobert (not familiar enough with AWS to know, so just guessing): The shutdown reason claims control-alt-del was pressed—it's possible that's how EC2 implements a graceful reboot (or similar) in the management console, by emulating control-alt-del. Are you sure that's not happening? Possibly automatically via some monitoring system? (This is just a generic troubleshooting step: the system says X is happening, first check if X is actually happening...)
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