[mniejiki]

I've never had any issues with ec2 instances mysteriously restarting and I've dealt with a lot of them (personal and business). In fact I don't think I've ever seen amazon restart instances or mess with them in any way without warning.

Sounds like you're got a configuration problem somewhere (os on you instances, software you're running, etc.) on your end and are blaming amazon for it when they had nothing to do with it.

Now, potentially the instance is on bad hardware (start/stop if you've got no ephemeral storage which will put you on new hardware) but that can happen even if you're running your own hardware. However, you've done so little investigation that blaming amazon is downright bad IT (is this how you deal with other bugs, blame the first thing you can think off and rant about it?).

[thelarry]

Agreed, the one time Amazon needed me to migrate an instance they told me when they would forcibly stop / start the instance and allowed me to do it before hand. How did you set up screen on EC2? I've had problems with it in the past but got it to work pretty well recently.