It you terminate your instance, it will change its state to shutting-down. But sometimes the following scenarios happen:
Instance termination delay:
- The instance is in the shutting-down state for more time than a few minutes, due to shutdown scripts run by the instance
- Problems with the underlying host machine
- Amazon EC2 will consider this instance as a stuck instance and terminate it
Terminated instance still displayed:
If the terminated instance still remains visible and has not been deleted, then you can contact the support team.
Automatically launch or terminate instances:
Following are reasons that you have used Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling or Elastic Beanstalk to scale your resources ...
