Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management console.
Under AWS services, navigate to All services > Compute > EC2.
The system displays the EC2 Management Console page.
In the left navigation pane, click Instances.
To select one or more instances, use the following methods:
To act on the Instance State dropdown: Click Instance State > Stop Instance .
To act on the Actions dropdown: Click Actions > Manage instance State > Stop instance.
The system displays the Manage instance state page. Select the Stop radio button, and click Change state. The system displays a message to stop the instances.
Click Stop.
When the system stops the instance, the Instance State column displays the state as stopped.
