EC2 startup on schedule

Question

I need to start up an EC2 instance at (say) 6am every day. The constraints are that I'd like to avoid having a computer running all day to do the startup or use a paid solution like ylastic's.

Is there a way to just boot up an instance instead of creating a new instance each time as shown in this example?

Answer 1

Check out the following Amazon Services:

• AWS Auto Scaling: Autoscaling is a service that lets users launch or terminate Amazon EC2 instances based on certain policies and rules set by users itself.
• AWS CloudFormation: Cloudformation provides an easy way to create and manage some AWS resources. It is used for provisioning and updating the resources in an orderly and predictable fashion.