Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Update: Added support for the force option for the EC2 instance terminate command. This feature enables customers to recover resources associated with an instance stuck in the shutting-down state as a result of rare issues caused by a frozen operating system or an underlying hardware problem.

Author: AWS

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+{
+    "type": "feature",
+    "category": "Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud",
+    "contributor": "",
+    "description": "Added support for the force option for the EC2 instance terminate command. This feature enables customers to recover resources associated with an instance stuck in the shutting-down state as a result of rare issues caused by a frozen operating system or an underlying hardware problem."
+}

.changes/next-release/feature-AmazonElasticComputeCloud-cc2482d.json

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           "documentation":"<p>The IDs of the instances.</p> <p>Constraints: Up to 1000 instance IDs. We recommend breaking up this request into smaller batches.</p>",
           "locationName":"InstanceId"
         },
+        "Force":{
+          "shape":"Boolean",
+          "documentation":"<p>Forces the instances to terminate. The instance will first attempt a graceful shutdown, which includes flushing file system caches and metadata. If the graceful shutdown fails to complete within the timeout period, the instance shuts down forcibly without flushing the file system caches and metadata.</p>"
+        },
         "SkipOsShutdown":{
           "shape":"Boolean",
           "documentation":"<p>Specifies whether to bypass the graceful OS shutdown process when the instance is terminated.</p> <p>Default: <code>false</code> </p>"