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EC2 managementAWS CLI

aws ec2 start-instances

aws ec2 start-instancesaws ec2 stop-instances

Control instance lifecycle by starting or stopping resources.

Command
aws ec2 stop-instances --instance-ids

Example usage

Gracefully stop or start individual EC2 instances.

aws ec2 stop-instances --instance-ids <instance_id>
aws ec2 start-instances --instance-ids <instance_id>

Related tags

EC2 managementaws ec2 stop-instancesclouds3ec2iam