Start and Stop AWS EC2 Instances with the AWS CLI.

This action executes the following commands to change an EC2 instance and outputs returned states:

Start:

aws ec2 start-instances --instance-ids <instance-id>

Wait:

aws ec2 wait instance-running --instance-ids <instance-id>

Stop:

aws ec2 stop-instances --instance-ids <instance-id>

uses: flyweightrocks/aws-ec2-action@v1
with:
  instance-id: 'Your Instance ID'
  wait-instance-running: true
  stop-instance: true

instance-id

The instance ID of the EC2 container.

Required: true

wait-instance-running

Wait until the instance is running.

Default: true

stop-instance

Stop the instance during post job cleanup.

Default: true

current-state

The current state of the instance.

previous-state

The previous state of the instance.

The AWS credentials and region environment variables must have been set before running this action. The environment variables can be configured with the Configure AWS Credentials Action for GitHub Actions.

This code is made available under the MIT license.