• Setting up the AWS EC2 command line tools:
  • http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/CommandLineReference/set-up-ec2-cli-linux.html#set_ec2_url_linux
• Setting up the correct region for the CLI tool.
  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15969649/ec2-describe-instance-status-client-invalidinstanceid-notfound-but-i-know-instan
• Secruity credential needs to be obtained.
• Using the CLI tools, I can probably schedule instance start/stopping automatically.