Shutdown causing reboot in EC2

[Rafal Lukawiecki]

I am using Colin’s AWS marketplace FreeBSD 11 image. When I issue (as root):

	shutdown -h now

it shuts down…and then reboots in 18 seconds. When I issue

	shutdown -p

or

	poweroff

it does power off. I thought that 'shutdown -h now' was supposed to place the machine in a halted state, is this supposed to behave differently on AWS EC2?

Many thanks,
Rafal
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Rafal Lukawiecki
Data Scientist 
Project Botticelli Ltd