Here are some tips to help you troubleshoot Amazon EC2 Windows instance problems:
- High CPU usage shortly after Windows starts:
If you have set Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them for Windows updates, then it will consume 50-99% of the CPU on the instance. It will cause a problem for your application and you can manually change it.
- No console output:
In a Windows instance, the EC2Config service, which provides the console output, is disabled by default. To get the output on the console, you need to enable it.
- Instance terminates immediately:
It is always best practice to check the status after you launch an instance and it should be in running state after the pending ...
