An AWS customer commenting on the Hacker News thread said his company’s EC2 instances have been running for more than 950 hours in one month.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has recovered from Thursday's service interruptions which affected its Appstream 2.0, Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2), Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), ElastiCache, Relational ...

AWS recommends all organizations using EC2-Class (or those who may have data living on an inactive cluster) should seek out and migrate the following resources: Running or stopped EC2 instances.