AWS autoscale ELB status checks grace period

Question

I\'m running servers in a AWS auto scale group. The running servers are behind a load balancer. I\'m using the ELB to mange the auto scaling groups healthchecks. When servers ar

Answer 1

the documentation (now) states "The grace period starts after the instance passes the EC2 system status check and instance status check."

So, at least according to the mid-2015 AWS documentation, the answer is "after the servers passed the system and the instance status checks." This is how we've set up our environment, and although I haven't done precise timings it appears to be correct.