Shutting Down or Restarting an Instance Using the Instance's OS
You can shut down and restart instances using the commands available in the operating system when you are signed in to the instance. Shutting down an instance using the instance's OS does not stop billing for that instance. If you shut down an instance this way, be sure to also stop it from the Console or API.
Open the navigation menu and select Compute. Under Compute, select Instances.
Click the instance that you're interested in.
Click Stop.
By default, the Console gracefully stops the instance by sending a shutdown command to the operating system. After waiting 15 minutes for the OS to shut down, the instance is powered off.
Note
If the applications that run on the instance take more than 15 minutes to shut down, they could be improperly stopped, resulting in data corruption. To avoid this, shut down the instance using the commands available in the OS before you stop the instance using the Console.
If you want to stop the instance immediately, without waiting for the OS to respond, select the Force stop the instance by immediately powering off check box.
Click Stop instance.
Use the instance action command and required parameters to stop an instance:
Open the navigation menu and select Compute. Under Compute, select Instances.
Click the instance that you're interested in.
Click Reboot.
Force reboot: By default, the Console gracefully restarts the instance by sending a shutdown command to the operating system. After waiting 15 minutes for the OS to shut down, the instance is powered off and then powered back on.
Note
If the applications that run on the instance take more than 15 minutes to shut down, they could be improperly stopped, resulting in data corruption. To avoid this, shut down the instance using the commands available in the OS before you restart the instance using the Console.
If you want to reboot the instance immediately, without waiting for the OS to respond, select the Force reboot the instance by immediately powering off, then powering back on option.
Infrastructure maintenance: If the instance is scheduled for infrastructure maintenance, for supported shapes, you can control when the maintenance downtime occurs by proactively reboot migrating the instance to a healthy physical host before the maintenance due date. Depending on the shape, do one of the following:
Standard VM shapes: The instance is migrated when you reboot it. You don't need to select any additional options.
Dense I/O VM shapes: If you want to reboot migrate the instance now, select the Delete the local NVMe-based SSD and reboot migrate to a healthy host option. For information about other maintenance options for dense I/O instances, see Infrastructure Maintenance.
Caution
The NVMe-based SSD is permanently deleted. We recommend that you create a backup of the SSD before proceeding.
Standard bare metal shapes: Select the Reboot migrate the instance to a healthy host option.
Click Reboot instance.
Use the instance action command and required parameters to reboot an instance: