EC2 instance turn on/off policy

In order to grant a user for turn on/off of an EC2 instance you have to create a custom policy.

1. At first, make sure you’re a root user of AWS.
2. Go through the IAM panel.
3. Then click on the ‘Policies’ menu on the left sidebar.

4. Then create a policy using the following JSON, just make sure you’ve put the proper EC2 instance id.

   {
       "Version": "2012-10-17",
       "Statement": [
           {
               "Effect": "Allow",
               "Action": "ec2:DescribeInstances",
               "Resource": "*"
           },
           {
               "Effect": "Allow",
               "Action": [
                   "ec2:StartInstances",
                   "ec2:StopInstances"
               ],
               "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/<YOU-EC2-INSTANCE-ID>"
           }
       ]
   }

5. Review and save the policy.
6. Then you have to attach the newly created policy to your new or existing IAM user.
7. That’s all.