EC2 startup on schedule

Question

I need to start up an EC2 instance at (say) 6am every day. The constraints are that I\'d like to avoid having a computer running all day to do the startup or use a paid solu

Answer 1

Amazon recently announced two new features to achieve this without custom implementations directly as configuration from AWS Web Console EC2 section.

• Using Scheduled Scaling for Application Auto Scaling (After creating an autoscaling group, there is a tab where you can add additional time based autoscaling rules)

• Reserving Scheduled EC2 instances (In the EC2 console, under Instances, there is the option to reserve Scheduled EC2 instances)