Comment by CarlHoerberg

Finally, it's crazy that they've haven't implemented this earlier, and why isn't it enabled by default, like on GCE? We've had for a long time an app that just polls the ec2 api and looks for impaired instances and then automatically restarts them. We have about 2-10 impaired/scheduled-for-reboot/on-deprecated hardware-instance per month so that app is quite a time-saver.