Explanation: When you stop a running instance, the following happens: *The instance performs a normal shutdown and stops running; its status changes to stopping andthen stopped. *Any Amazon EBS volumes remain attached to the instance, and their data persists. *Any data stored in the RAM of the host computer or the instance store volumes of the hostcomputer is gone. Reference: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Stop_Start.html