On the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, you can use AWS Node Termination Handler, an open-source project, to handle Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance shutdown within Kubernetes gracefully. AWS Node Termination Handler helps to ensure that the Kubernetes control plane responds appropriately to events that can cause your EC2 instance to become unavailable. Such events include the following:
Auto Scaling group rebalancing across Availability Zones
EC2 instance termination through the API or the AWS Management Console
