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.
Recovery Workflow
- CloudAIPilot prevents you from accidentally trying to deploy to an Externally Deleted server.
- Open the AI Pilot and ask: *"My server was externally deleted. How do I recover?"*
- The AI will locate the most recent automated backup for that server in your vault and generate an Approval Card to provision a replacement server and restore the data.