Auto Shutdown and Start Amazon EC2 Instance

Question

Can I automatically start and terminate my Amazon instance using Amazon API? Can you please describe how this can be done? I ideally need to start the instance and stop the

Answer 1

The company I work for had customers regularly asking about this so we've written a freeware EC2 scheduling app available here:

http://blog.simple-help.com/2012/03/free-ec2-scheduler/

It works on Windows and Mac, lets you create multiple daily/weekly/monthly schedules and lets you use matching filters to include large numbers of instances easily or includes ones that you add in the future.