amazon web services - Shutdown an ec2 instance after finishing computing

Question

I’m coding a chess engine for a project at school and i need more computing power than my pc can offer. So i turned to AWS and especially EC2. I want to test different algorithms.

I know how to start the instance and how to begin the computing on the instance but as soon as the computing is finished, I would like to send automatically the data files on s3 (i know the command but not how to automatically execute it) and shutdown the instance to avoid paying for nothing.

Thank you for your help,

Answer 1

You mention your script is in python, in that case probably you could execute it with AWS Lambda and configure rules in CloudWatch Events Rules to define the time to run the script. Consider the maximum time that Lambda allows is 15 minutes so if it is not suitable for your case you can check ECS Fargate Scheduled Tasks to run the process at the defined time and then delete the container.