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Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Start / Stop / Describe Instances

Create policy and role:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:StartInstances",
                "ec2:StopInstances"
            ],
            "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "ec2:DescribeInstances",
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Reference: Amazon EC2: Allows Starting or Stopping EC2 Instances a User Has Tagged, Programmatically and in the Console

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