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Stopped, Running and Terminated Instances and What Each Still Bills

The gap between 'I turned it off' and 'I stopped being billed' is a standard surprise, and terminating a machine that held the only copy of an intermediate result is a standard way to lose a run. Both directly threaten the outcome's cost and reproducibility clauses.

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How Stopping Versus Terminating an EC2 Instance Affects EBS Volumes and Billing in AWS

Virtual machine lifecycle states in cloud infrastructure separate compute allocation from storage persistence: stopping an instance halts the operating system and releases the compute allocation whil…