External Deletion Detection and Recovery
Overview
Because CloudAIPilot operates on a "Bring-Your-Own-Cloud" model, a team member might log directly into the AWS or DigitalOcean console and manually delete a server that CloudAIPilot is actively managing.
How We Detect It
CloudAIPilot's background health-check engine polls your servers continuously. If a server stops responding, the engine checks the Cloud Provider's API.
If the provider reports the VM as terminated or not_found, CloudAIPilot instantly updates the server status to Externally Deleted and fires a critical alert.
What to Do After External Deletion
The server record remains in CloudAIPilot with an Externally Deleted status. The archived record is preserved for reference, no new deployments can be made to that server.
To recover your workloads, you will need to provision a new server and restore from any backups you had configured before the deletion.