How to turn on/off cloud instances during office hours

Question

I\'ve got my head around creating cloud instances in AWS, Azure and Rackspace. However, I need to turn my instances off at the end of the day and on in the morning as this w

Answer 1

Yes Automation Runbook are there by which we can schedule the job. I created the script for stopping (De-allocated) Azure VM.

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Deallocate-all-VM-under-79049c69

Please read about how to use runbook http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/06/19/azure-automation-runbook-management/

Dellocation and stop are different, since stop vm will also incur cost.