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aws instance recovery vs reboot

The Cloudwatch docs show its possible, based on the outcome of an alarm, to (amongst others) either reboot, or recover an instance. What is the difference between a reboot and a recovery? The docs say:

A recovered instance is identical to the original instance, including the instance ID, private IP addresses, Elastic IP addresses, and all instance metadata.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-instance-recover.html

But from the tests I have done, that is the case for rebooted instances too.

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Just found what I needed, But Ill leave this here for others searching for the same thing. Recovery will move the instance to a new hypervisor, rebooting keeps the instance on the same hypervisor.

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