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

If it's not mission critical - A simplistic thing to do is to schedule batch file to run 'SHUTDOWN' (windows) at 3am every day. Then at least you don't run the risk of accidentally leaving an unwanted instance running indefinitely.

Obviously this is only half the story!