Hello all, How can I start up an Amazon EC2 instance every day?
I have an EC2 instance that I start up every morning and shut down every evening. The shutdown process is internal to the instance and is run via cron: # GMT times 15 5 * * * /sbin/poweroff In contrast, the startup process is handled by a cron job that runs on my home system: # EDT times 0 8 * * * /usr/bin/ec2-start-instances i-12cf1e3c The home system is getting retired as I hardly use it and there really isn't a need for it to be on 24/7. Does anyone know of another way to start up EC2 instances daily? I'd like to avoid having a second server whose sole purpose is to startup an EC2 instance. A Google search suggests that what I am looking for may not be possible: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9069447/ec2-startup-on-schedule but thought I'd ask given that that article is from two years ago. Regards, - Robert -- -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: cwelug@googlegroups.com To subscribe: cwelug-subscr...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe: cwelug-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Central West End Linux Users Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cwelug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
