# Finding out the Termination Protection policy for an EC2 instance

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/finding-out-the-termination-protection-policy-for-an-ec2-instance/22718>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [October 4, 2016, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/finding-out-the-termination-protection-policy-for-an-ec2-instance/22718 "2016-10-04T12:33:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![henrique.rodrigues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/22d042/32.png) [@henrique.rodrigues](https://forum.ansible.com/u/henrique.rodrigues)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/finding-out-the-termination-protection-policy-for-an-ec2-instance/22718/1 "2016-10-04T12:33:00Z")

</div>

Hi,

I’m trying to find out if a certain instance is protected against termination, but it doesn’t seem that ec2\_remote\_facts gives me that information. I’m on Ansible 2.1.2.0.

Does anyone know a way of getting that information?

Thank you,  
Henrique Rodrigues