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

You could look at Ylastic to do this. The alternative seems to be having one machine running that shuts down/starts other instances using a cron job or scheduled task.

Obviously if you only want one instance this is an expensive solution, as one machine has to always be running, and paying ~$80 a month for one machine to run cron jobs isn't cost effective.