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

I believe that the initial question was a little bit confusing. It depends on what Pasta needs: 1.launch/terminate (instance store) - Auto Scaling is the right solution( Nakedible's answer) 2.start/stop EBS boot instance - Auto Scaling won't help, I use remote scheduled scripts (i.e., ec2 CLI).