title: AWS-EC2-Windows Servers Fail to Start Programmatically
body: <p>I have created a nifty calendar web application that controls the state of the instances in in my AWS environment. My test environment consisted of a few Amazon Linux instances, and all was working as intended. After setting this web application up in an environment with both Windows and Linux servers, I have noticed that the Windows servers stop properly, but when they're started programmatically they go into a "pending" state, then back to stopped.</p>
  
  <p>Would anyone be able to give me some insight on why the Windows servers would behave differently? If not, point me in the right direction to generating the appropriate logs to troubleshoot the issue?</p>
  
  <p>I greatly appreciate the help!</p>