I have a post correcting a statement I made before:
The single biggest problem I have with compute instances is that there is no auto-stop functionality to them. This is really frustrating because you’re paying for that virtual machine like you would any other, so if you forget to turn it off when you go home for the weekend, it’ll cost you. I wish there were a built-in option to shut off a compute instance after a certain amount of inactivity. Instead, you’ll need to start and stop them manually.
It turns out that you can and so I wanted to write a post to correct the record.
Click through to see how you can do this. You can bet that I’ve got it enabled now.