manh-vv/ec2-start-stop

Start and Stop AWS EC2 Instances from another always active Instance

ec2 start stop

Start and Stop AWS EC2 Instances from another always active Instance

Use it for server development / test / stage that should not always be running.

1. Install aws-cli into another EC2 instance that is always running 24 hours on 24, write a script like this ec2cmd.sh provided.
2. Put the script into cron (crontab -e) on this instance always active, for example using the cron.txt provided.

NOTE

Check the current timezone

timedatectl

#                Local time: Mon 2023-07-03 09:42:16 +07
#            Universal time: Mon 2023-07-03 02:42:16 UTC
#                  RTC time: Mon 2023-07-03 02:42:16    
#                 Time zone: Asia/Bangkok (+07, +0700)  
# System clock synchronized: yes                        
#               NTP service: active                     
#           RTC in local TZ: no 

Change the current timezone if necessary

sudo timedatectl set-timezone Asia/Bangkok

ATTENTION: always make a backup and test first using it!