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Re:AWS announces per-second billing for EC2 instances by alexbilbie on Monday September 18, 2017 @06:08PM (#15280113)
You can implement this with a simple auto-scaling group or write a small Lambda function which runs at a certain time to start/stop the instance
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Re:AWS announces per-second billing for EC2 instances by toomuchtodo on Monday September 18, 2017 @07:26PM (#15280583)
Autoscaling groups can be scheduled without a lambda function.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/latest/userguide/sche...

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Re:AWS announces per-second billing for EC2 instances by user5994461 on Monday September 18, 2017 @08:41PM (#15280933)
You typically want exactly 0 or 1 instances for testing instances. I don't recall autoscaling groups able to do that.
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Re:AWS announces per-second billing for EC2 instances by skywhopper on Monday September 18, 2017 @09:21PM (#15281090)
This is entirely possible. Scheduled actions can make this happen on a schedule (simply schedule desired-capacity=1 when you want it on and desired-capacity=0 when you want it off). Or you can simply run a command to do it on demand.
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Re:AWS announces per-second billing for EC2 instances by rabidrat on Monday September 18, 2017 @09:06PM (#15281041)
I have an autoscaling group that goes from 0 to 1 every day for some batch processing. It took a bit of finagling but it's definitely possible.
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